Archived News
11-03-2014
China Worries Batter KLCI, Key Asian Markets
11/03/2014 (The Star) - Worries about a slowdown in China's economy battered key Asian markets and Malaysian equities, sending all the key indices into the red.
11-03-2014
OCBC Sees More Favourable Trade Balance This Year
11/03/2014 (Bernama) - Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp sees Malaysia's trade balance to be more favourable this year as exports are staging a more significant recovery on the back of improving global outlook.
11-03-2014
Malaysia Generates RM638.9 Million Sales At Gulfood
11/03/2014 (Bernama) - Gulfood, one of the biggest annual food and hospitality trade show in Dubai saw Malaysia's largest participation with 70 companies, including 29 companies making inroads into the market for the first time.
11-03-2014
February Palm Oil Stocks Fall 14.25 Per Cent To 1.65 Million Tonnes
11/03/2014 (Bernama) - Palm oil stocks fell 14.25 per cent to 1.65 million tonnes in February 2014 from 1.93 million tonnes in January 2014, said the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB).
11-03-2014
Rotterdam Vegetable Oil Prices
11/03/2014 (Business Recorder) - Monday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.
11-03-2014
Mixed Trend in Edible Oils
11/03/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils ruled mixed on Monday with cautious activities amid thin volatility in domestic futures markets. Malaysian palm oil futures extended gain on expectation of higher demand and lower output.
10-03-2014
Crude Palm Oil Weekly Report 2 March 2014
10/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose 3.07 percent for the week on Friday, with prices boosted by a combination of gains in comparative vegetable oils and expectations that dry weather may hurt production.
10-03-2014
Sugar Rallying With Cooking Oil for Merchant Fund on Less Supply
10/03/2014 (Bloomberg) - Sugar and cooking oil prices will extend a rally as dry weather from South America to Asia parches crops, said Doug King, Chief Investment Officer of the $145 million Merchant Commodity Fund.
10-03-2014
Small-scale Farmers in State Urged to Grow More Crops
10/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - Small-scale farmers in the state are urged to cultivate and produce more than one commodity.
10-03-2014
Sarawak Plans to Sell CPO in Middle East
10/03/2014 (The Star) - Sarawak has identified the Middle East as the potential new market for its palm oil products.
10-03-2014
Agri Commodities Turn Hot Again
10/03/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - Year 2013 was a forgettable one for farm commodities, as corn futures in Chicago plunged 39.6 per cent, global prices of coffee, wheat, sugar, soyabean and palm oil fell 23, 22.2, 15.9, 8.3 and 0.9 per cent respectively, in dollar terms.
10-03-2014
Ivory Coast's Sifca to invest $74 mln in West Africa
10/03/2014 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast agro-industrial group Sifca, part-owned by Singapore's Olam International and Wilmar International, will invest 35 billion CFA francs ($74 million) this year to diversify in West Africa, executives said.