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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures saw their sharpest fall in a week on Tuesday evening, snapping two sessions of gains, due to slowing demand.

BEIJING -- China is harnessing soybeans as a weapon in its escalating trade conflict with the U.S., eliminating import tariffs on the key commodity from five countries to diversify its supply base.

PARIS: Palm oil production has "decimated" animal and plant life in Malaysia and Indonesia, and threatens pristine forests in central Africa and South America, a leading international conservation group warned Tuesday.

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OCBC maintains bearish outlook for palm oil prices in 2H as supplies expected to rise in 3Q amid lacklustre demand, analyst Barnabas Gan says in report on Tuesday

Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier losses to chart a second straight session of gains at the close of trade on Monday, as the market's outlook of falling output supported prices.

JAKARTA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The European Union has adjourned its ban on some Indonesian crude palm oil (CPO) exports, allowing the country to ratchet up shipments of the commodity abroad, an Indonesian minister said on Tuesday.

The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Tuesday June 26.

Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier losses to chart a second straight session of gains at the close of trade on Monday, as the market's outlook of falling output supported prices

Singapore’s Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil processor, said it has ceased sourcing from suppliers that are allegedly associated with a company that was accused by Greenpeace of causing deforestation

FRANS remembers getting up just after sunrise on a September day last year in his village of Panca Mukti, in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

The world's largest palm oil trader is still linked to deforestation in Indonesia despite committing five years ago to stop logging the archipelago's vast tracts of jungle, Greenpeace said Monday.