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07/04/2016 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

07/04/2016 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures dropped to their lowest level in nearly two weeks on Wednesday, hit by better-than-expected output forecasts and weak export demand.

07/04/2016 (Reuters) - Wednesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

07/04/2016 (Reuters) - Malaysia's annual exports grew in February, rebounding from a slump the previous month, due to larger shipments of electrical and electronic products, government data showed on Wednesday.

07/04/2016 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices fell 0.43 per cent to Rs 553 per 10 kg in futures market today as participants booked profits at prevailing levels, driven by easing demand in the spot market.

07/04/2016 (AllAfrica.com) - The Kazimingi area of Jinja, once designated as Uganda's industrial hub, is today a shell of rusty disused oil mills and crumbling buildings -- testimony to a bygone era, when smallholder farmers prospered by growing cotton and other oil seeds to feed the mills.

07/04/2016 (Business Standard) - Select edible oil prices firmed up by up to Rs 100 per quintal at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market today on pick up in demand from retailers.

07/04/2016 (The Straits Times) - Three of the world's top food and consumer goods companies that make Dove soap, M&M's and Kellogg's Corn Flakes have dropped a leading Malaysian palm oil producer because of deforestation in its plantations in Indonesia.

06/04/2016 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

06/04/2016 (Bernama) - Malaysian palm oil and oleo-chemical manufacturers should grab the opportunity offered by Colombia's temporary tariff reduction for palm oil and palm oil-related products.

06/04/2016 (Reuters) - Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

06/04/2016 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier gains to fall in evening trade on Tuesday as the market took profits in anticipation of higher than expected end-stocks.