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MUMBAI (June 4): Malaysian palm oil futures fell more than 1% on Monday as traders were expecting build up in stockpiles due to sluggish export demand.

SINGAPORE (June 5): Palm oil may break a support at RM2,408 per tonne and fall to the next support at RM2,364, as suggested by a retracement analysis.

A study by researchers at Imperial College London reports that food manufacturers are unable to state on food packaging that their palm oil products do not destroy rainforests, as the supply chain is too complex to make such claims.

Crude palm oil prices fell further by 0.75 per cent to Rs 647.70 per ten kg in futures trade today as speculators cut bets, taking negative cues from the spot market on easing demand amid weaker trend overseas.

Malaysian palm oil futures were steady in thin volume by the midday break on Monday, after poor exports weighed on sentiment last week.

The fight that the whole civilized world is waging against the “harmful” fats, bypassed Russia party. Who promises in five years to achieve complete failure of the food industry from hydrogenated TRANS fats — margarine and confectionery fat. Britain and Iceland are prepared to ban the import of palm oil purchases which in Russia are growing rapidly.

Food firms cannot claim the palm oil in their products does not destroy rainforests because supply chains are so complex, scientists say.

MUMBAI: Malaysian palm oil futures rose on Friday tracking rival soyoil and on expectations of a marginal rise in the country's palm oil output, although a fall in exports in May capped the gains.

Palm oil companies face huge challenges in making good their guarantees that production of their widely-used vegetable oil will not involve deforestation.

The Indonesian Federation of Vegetable oil Industries (GIMNI) said the country`s downstream palm oil industry grew positively including in vegetable oil, oleochemiacl and biodiesel industries.

Over 50 Local farmers from various communities in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Ahoada and Emohua Local Governemnt Areas of OML 58 oil field in Rives State were given special trainings sponsored by Total E&P. Nigeria Ltd on International Standard of Oil Palm production.

Maintain market perform with a lower target price (TP) of RM5.60: Sime Darby Plantation Bhd’s nine months of financial year 2018 (9MFY18) core net profit (CNP) at RM852 million was below expectations, at 65% of the consensus RM1.32 billion forecast and 61% of our RM1.4 billion estimate on above-expectations unit cost due to severe weather impact. However, fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production at 7.8 million tonnes was within expectations, at 76% of our 10.2 million-tonne forecast. No dividend was announced as expected.