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CPO futures extend retreat
CRUDE palm oil futures dropped 0.6 per cent yesterday, extending a retreat from a five-week peak hit on Monday, pressured by a slide in crude oil price, traders said.
The benchmark January contract on the Bursa Malaysia Derivative Exchange settled down RM12 at RM2,168 a tonne. Overall volume was 18,028 lots of 25 tonnes each.
"The pullback is expected. The rise was driven by the crude oil rally so when oil dropped, the market just followed," said a local trader. Energy prices tend to hold some sway over vegetable oil markets as petroleum diesel competes with biodiesel.
US crude futures fell US$1.02 to US$78.10 (US$1.00 = RM3.41) a barrel yesterday ahead of US government weekly oil data forecast to show a rise in oil inventories. Traders said palm fundamentals actually pointed to a bearish outlook for prices after cargo surveyors reported exports for the first 20 days of October.
Exports of Malaysian palm oil products for Oct. 1-20 rose 1.8 per cent to 812,095 tonnes, from 797,929 tonnes tonnes shipped between Sept. 1 and 20, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Tuesday.
But another cargo surveyor, Societe Generale de Surveillance, said Oct. 1-20 exports fell 1.4 per cent to 825,626 tonnes from 837,656 tonnes shipped between Sept. 1 and 20. - Agencies
CRUDE palm oil futures dropped 0.6 per cent yesterday, extending a retreat from a five-week peak hit on Monday, pressured by a slide in crude oil price, traders said.
The benchmark January contract on the Bursa Malaysia Derivative Exchange settled down RM12 at RM2,168 a tonne. Overall volume was 18,028 lots of 25 tonnes each.
"The pullback is expected. The rise was driven by the crude oil rally so when oil dropped, the market just followed," said a local trader. Energy prices tend to hold some sway over vegetable oil markets as petroleum diesel competes with biodiesel.
US crude futures fell US$1.02 to US$78.10 (US$1.00 = RM3.41) a barrel yesterday ahead of US government weekly oil data forecast to show a rise in oil inventories. Traders said palm fundamentals actually pointed to a bearish outlook for prices after cargo surveyors reported exports for the first 20 days of October.
Exports of Malaysian palm oil products for Oct. 1-20 rose 1.8 per cent to 812,095 tonnes, from 797,929 tonnes tonnes shipped between Sept. 1 and 20, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Tuesday.
But another cargo surveyor, Societe Generale de Surveillance, said Oct. 1-20 exports fell 1.4 per cent to 825,626 tonnes from 837,656 tonnes shipped between Sept. 1 and 20. - Agencies
