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04/07/2025 (BNE Intellinews) - India is one of the world’s major consumers of edible oil, with palm oil being the most popular. A significant portion of the country’s domestic demand is met through imports, primarily from Malaysia and Indonesia. Changes in import duties tend to have a pronounced impact on the industry.

03/07/2025 (Business Today) - RHB Investment Bank Bhd (RHB Research) has maintained its short positions on crude palm oil futures (FCPO), citing persistent bearish signals despite a strong rebound that lifted prices above the 200-day simple moving average (SMA) line.

03/07/2025 (New Straits Times), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian palm oil futures traded in a tight range early on Thursday as support from rival Dalian oils offset the weakness in crude oil and Chicago soyoil.

03/07/2025 (Ukr Agro Consult) - Oil prices have stabilized, so vegetable oil markets are responding mainly to demand data. Palm and soybean oil prices are rising as India increases imports of cheap oil.

03/07/2025 (Ukr Agro Consult) - Indonesia’s crude and refined palm oil exports in May rose 53% to 1.88 million tonnes from a year earlier, when 1.23 million tonnes were exported, as the tropical oil was sold at a significant discount to its rivals, boosting demand from key buyers. In value terms, exports rose nearly 71% year-on-year to US$1.85 billion (RM7.76 billion).

03/07/2025 (Oils & Fats International Magazine) - Used cooking oil (UCO) collection and recycling company Quatra has signed a deal to supply French energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies with 60,000 tonnes/year of UCO for the production of biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

02/07/2025 (Business Today) - Global palm oil prices are expected to remain largely capped for the remainder of 2025 despite some policy-driven support, as ample supply from key producers Malaysia and Indonesia is set to widen the global production surplus. BMI, a Fitch Solutions Company, has maintained its average annual price forecast for Bursa Malaysia-listed crude palm oil (CPO) futures contracts in 2025 at MYR4,150 per tonne.

03/05/2024 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Analysts are mostly neutral on the plantation sector, projecting the crude palm oil (CPO) prices to trade between RM3,800 and RM4,200 per tonne in the second half of this year (2H25).

02/07/2025 (Ukr Agro Consult) - Indonesia raised its benchmark price for crude palm oil (CPO) by $21.51 to $877.89 per tonne in July, the trade ministry said in a ruling seen by Reuters on Monday. The benchmark price was $856.38 per tonne a month earlier.

02/07/2025 (Deccan Herald), Mumbai - India's palm oil imports soared to an 11-month high in June, driven by lower domestic inventories and a price discount to rivals soyoil and sunflower oil that encouraged refiners to ramp up purchases, according to five dealers.

02/07/2025 (Business Standard) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose on Wednesday, snapping two straight sessions of losses, supported by improving demand, soyoil rally and the possibility of lower production in June.

02/07/2025 (Courtshouse News Service), Brussels - Indonesian palm oil companies suffered a comprehensive legal defeat Wednesday as the European Union's General Court rejected all challenges to punishing anti-dumping duties, delivering a major victory for EU trade enforcement and maintaining penalties of up to 46.4% on fatty acid imports.