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13/12/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil imports by India, the world’s biggest buyer, increased for a fifth month in November as the government delayed a decision on increasing taxes.

13/12/2014 (The Guardian) - From Saturday, 500 million consumers in Europe will become aware that palm oil is in their food. The EU law on food information to consumers (otherwise known as FIC) means that food stuffs can no longer get away with hiding ingredients under generic titles. Now ingredients will have to be exactly what it says on the tin, and sustainable palm oil could be a major beneficiary.

13/12/2014 (Business Standard) - Prices of palmolein and soyabean oils fell by Rs 50 per quintal at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market today owing to slackened demand at prevailing levels.

13/12/2014 (Business Standard) - Vegetable oil imports jumped 26% in November on dumping from Malaysia and Indonesia due to zero duty on palm products in the last five years and reduced demand for crude palm oil for bio diesel, pushed the export of palm products to India to reduce burgeoning stock held by the exporting countries,according to Solvent Extractors' Association of India.

13/12/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - A weak trend was witnessed in edible oils market on the back of a bearish futures market amid slack physical demand. Lower closing of Malaysian palm oil and weak projection for Chicago soya oil futures kept players away from fresh bets

13/12/2014 (Business Standard) - Select edible oils extended losses for the third day and prices fell up to Rs 100 per quintal at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market today due to sluggish demand against adequate stocks position.

12/12/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Friday.

12/12/2014 (Bernama) - The import of palm oil products in India has been on an uptrend over the past two months due to the zero export duty by Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as prices being at the lowest in five years.

12/12/2014 (Bloomberg) - Malaysian sukuk investors are designing strategies for 2015 that will profit as a new tax both pushes up inflation and forces central bank rate increases.

12/12/2014 (Bernama) - Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem has warned investors against encroaching onto state and communal land to develop any sort of plantation prior to getting approval from the Sarawak Land and Survey Department.

12/12/2014 (Bernama) - Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) is set to mark a new foray into China by collaborating with Shenzhen Agricultural Products Co Ltd (SZAP), an agri-business trading company in China.

12/12/2014 (Jakarta Post) - On the back of plunging oil prices, we believe crude palm oil (CPO) prices will be helpless, unable to decouple from the downtrend of petroleum prices. This is particularly true given the country’s recent decision to move away from fuel subsidies, which will spell bad news for the Indonesian government’s biodiesel program.