KUALA LUMPUR: The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Thursday April 9.

FUNDAMENTALS
* Malaysian palm oil futures inched down on Wednesday, retreating further from sharp gains made earlier in the week as a firm ringgit and concerns over rising palm supplies stifled buying interest. 
*  U.S. corn futures fell for the third day in a row on Wednesday as traders staked out positions ahead of a government report that was expected to boost projections for supplies of the grain at the end of the crop year, traders said. 
* Oil prices dived 6 percent on Wednesday after closing at their highest this year, as a mammoth rise in U.S. crude stockpiles and news of record Saudi oil production scuttled talk of a sustained recovery. 

MARKET NEWS
* Global equity markets rose on Wednesday and European shares hit eight-year highs on a $70 billion takeover bid by Royal Dutch Shell RDSa.L, while U.S. shares pared gains after the largest U.S. crude inventory build in 14 years slammed oil prices.

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> Premium for old-crop CBOT soy shrinks as China buys from South America   > Russia’s EconMin says has proposals on Greece and Russia’s food import ban 

DATA/EVENTS 
> Cargo surveyors Intertek Testing Services and Societe Generale de Surveillance to release data on Malaysia’s April 1-10 palm oil exports on April 10. 
> Industry regulator the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) to release data on Malaysia’s end-March palm oil stocks, exports and production on April 10.

Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 0020 GMT

  Palm oil prices in Malaysian ringgit per tonne
  CBOT soy oil in U.S. cents per pound
  Dalian soy oil and RBD palm olein in Chinese yuan per tonne
  India soy oil in Indian rupee per 10 kg
  Crude in U.S. dollars per barrel
 – Reuters

Source : The Star

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