Archived News
13-02-2019
Biofuels: Commission blacklists palm oil, throws soybeans lifeline
In an eagerly-awaited decision, the European Commission last week categorised palm oil as a high-emitting biofuel crop but provided some controversial exemptions for smallholders and spared soybeans from the delegated act’s provisions
13-02-2019
EU targets palm oil for road fuel phase-out, but with exemptions
The European Commission has concluded that palm oil cultivation results in deforestation and its use in transport fuel should be phased out, but environmentalists criticised it on Monday for allowing a number of exceptions
13-02-2019
Supermarkets' sustainable palm oil not fully traceable
Palm oil used in supermarket products is not fully traceable despite it being called "100% certified sustainable".
13-02-2019
Switzerland signs trade agreement with UK
Switzerland and UK have signed a bilateral trade agreement to maintain economic and trade relations once UK has left the EU (Brexit).
13-02-2019
Malaysia seeks to implement B20 for transport sector in 2020
Malaysia targets to raise its biofuel mandate in the transport sector to B20 by 2020, from B10 currently, and for industrial sector to B10, from B7, according to Primary Industries minister Teresa Kok.
13-02-2019
Palm oil falls
Malaysian palm oil futures fell over 1 per cent to their lowest in nearly three weeks on Monday as traders turned bearish due to a weaker outlook for exports.
13-02-2019
Here's a blueprint for investors trading the different China-US trade war outcomes
Citigroup has a China trade deal strategy for all the possible outcomes from the trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing
13-02-2019
Malaysia bets on biofuel projects to spur palm oil demand
Malaysia is aiming for domestic annual demand of crude palm oil to rise by 1.3 million tons in 2020 as it presses ahead with biodiesel programs in the transport and industrial sectors, the federal plantation minister said Tuesday
13-02-2019
Palm oil firms seeing solid export trend: DBS
Regional palm oil plantation companies are seeing a solid export trend, with upbeat export performance in January offsetting a firm output performance, said DBS Group Research analysts in a Feb 11 note.
13-02-2019
Malaysia to double palm oil used in transport biodiesel to 20% in 2020 — minister
Malaysia aims to double the palm oil content in biodiesel used for the transport sector to 20% next year, as Southeast Asia's third-largest economy looks to cut record stockpiles and boost prices, a government minister said on Tuesday
13-02-2019
Palm oil: Smallholder expansion into peatlands on the rise
Deforestation and peatland conversion is largely driven by big business growing oil palm in industrial plantations and exporting to overseas markets, the story goes – while smallholders generally convert tiny patches of existing cropland and produce comparatively few negative environmental impacts
12-02-2019
Malaysian palm oil/Vegoils: Market factors to watch Tuesday Feb 12
The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Tuesday Feb 12.