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26/10/2013 (Business Recorder) - Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

26/10/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Malaysian palm oil futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended lower on Friday, after weaker-than-expected export data fanned concerns that demand for the crude palm oil (CPO) has begun to taper. Cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said that shipments of Malaysian palm oil fell 0.6 per cent to 12,31,393 tonnes during October 1-25, as a lull in exports to India offset a slight increase to China and Europe.

25/10/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower on Thursday, snapping four days of gains as investors booked profits from prices that hit near two-month highs in the previous session.

25/10/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils – both spot and futures – witnessed a firm trend on Thursday. However, the surge in the spot market was marginal on slack demand and in the futures, the volatility was higher due to aggressive buying.

25/10/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil declined the most in four weeks after a rally to a seven-month high spurred some investors to lock in gains.

25/10/2013 (Business Recorder) - Thursday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

25/10/2013 (The Star) - Sixty palm oil mills have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by trapping the biogas emitted from palm oil mill effluent and use them as fuel.

25/10/2013 (Bloomberg) - A rally in palm oil futures in China, the biggest consumer of cooking oils, may be peaking as momentum slows, according to technical analysis by Shanghai Cifco Futures Co.

25/10/2013 (AZoNano.com) - Graphene NanoChem (AIM: GRPH), the performance nanochemicals and advanced materials company, is pleased to announce that Zurex Corporation Sdn Bhd, its wholly-owned subsidiary, has today resumed operations at its Lahad Datu refinery.

25/10/2013 (Proactive Investors UK) - Palm oil firm DekelOil (LON:DKL) is likely to announce news of an off-take agreement for its plant in Ivory Coast in the next six to eight weeks, executive director Lincoln Moore told Proactive.

25/10/2013 (The Star) - The day after our visit to United Plantations, which included a tour of the estate’s plantation, palm oil mill and biogas plant, we fly to orangutan country to meet the charismatic animals in person. Only two are hanging around the platform when we arrive at the Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre in Sandakan, Sabah.

24/10/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose to their highest level in nearly two months on Wednesday, recovering from the morning session losses, as investors banked on estimates that output had started to seasonally slow in the world's second-largest grower.