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18/04/2016 (The Star) - A ban by Indonesia on new permits for palm oil companies will further fuel an impending shortage in supply of the commodity.

18/04/2016 (Reuters) - Malaysia, the world's second largest palm oil producer after Indonesia, will maintain its crude palm oil export tax at 5 percent in May, a government circular showed on Friday.

18/04/2016 (Bernama) - The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) has urged palm oil producers to increase supply in order to tap a bigger share of the vegetable oil market to meet the growing world demand.

18/04/2016 (Russia Beyond the Headlines) - The decision to mark products containing palm oil will be taken in 2 months, Russia’s First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dzhambulat Khatuov said on Friday.

18/04/2016 (Reuter) - China's March soyabean imports climbed to 6.1 million tonnes, setting a record for the third month of the year as attractive hog breeding margins and flows of newly harvested supplies from South America lifted demand. Imports by China, which buys around 60 percent of the total soyabeans traded worldwide, jumped 35.3 percent from 4.51 million tonnes in February, figures from the General Administration of Customs of China showed on Wednesday.

18/04/2016 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures fell on Friday, a fourth market session of falls this week, weighed down by declining rival oils and expectations of higher output in April.

18/04/2016 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures fell on Friday, heading for their fourth session of falls this week, weighed down by declining rival oils and expectations of higher output in April.

18/04/2016 (The Star) - Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd’s (FGV) actions to call off its proposed acquisition of a 55% stake in China-based edible oil producer Zhong Ling Nutril-Oil Holdings Ltd may revive interest in the stock once again.

15/04/2016 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

15/04/2016 (Reuters) - Thursday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

15/04/2016 (Bloomberg) - El Nino-related trades from sugar to palm oil boosted the Merchant Commodity Fund’s performance by 10 percent in the first quarter, according to managers Doug King and Michael Coleman.

15/04/2016 (UkrAgroConsult) - In February 2016 Ukraine imported 30 KMT of palm oil. This is 68% more than in January (18 KMT) and 99% more than in February 2015 (15.2 KMT).