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Malaysia's palm oil inventories in January eased back from a near two-decade high at end-December, as demand increased amid falling production, official data showed on Monday, although the stocks still hovered just above 3 million tonnes.

Indonesia and Malaysia say the EU measure will unfairly disadvantage their crops, while environmentalists worry it won’t be tough enough on deforestation

TH Plantations’ upcoming Q4 FY18 results may include asset impairment(s) to clean up its balance sheet, Maybank Investment Bank Research says as it lowers its target price (TP) by 20% to 59 sen from 74 sen.

PublicInvest research believes the Malaysian palm oil sector is off to a good start in 2019 as inventory levels fell 6.7% month-on-month to three million metric tonnes (mt) on the back of lower production and stronger exports.

Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is likely to edge up to 4.7% in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018, from the 4.4% reported in Q3, in line with Bloomberg’s market consensus, according to United Overseas Bank (M) Bhd (UOB).

Renewed hopes for a positive round of US-China trade talks saw China and Hong Kong markets and Bursa Malaysia close on a firmer note on Monday.

A UN body tasked with cutting global aircraft emissions is covertly meeting this week for discussions dominated by airline industry observers

Satellite imaging has been used to spot deforestation in areas of palm oil cultivation for years, but obtaining the images was expensive and they often took months to arrive to end users.

Malaysia’s palm oil export market has huge potential to be expanded to Turkey, Pakistan and Iran due to the high utilisation of the commodity in the three countries.

Malaysia's palm oil exports climbed up 21.19% month on month at 1.676 million mt, amid a jump in volumes to China, India and EU countries, according to data released Monday

The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets. on Monday Jan 11

Malaysian palm oil futures fell more than 1 percent on Friday, retreating from the previous session's seven-month high, hindered by a stronger ringgit and losses in U.S. soyoil on the Chicago Board of Trade.