Berita Arkib

15/03/2014 (Wall Street Journal) - Droughts in South America and Southeast Asia are sending soybean and palm oil prices surging, and pushing cooking oil prices higher in India and China.

15/03/2014 (Reuters) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products from March. 1 to 15 fell 20.7 percent to 480,730 tonnes from 606,190 tonnes shipped during Feb. 1 to 15, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Saturday.

15/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - After struggling to climb higher in the past two weeks, the market succumbed to selling pressure as market performances globally were bearish in the past one week. The Ringgit started to weaken although it gained some strength two weeks ago. The results season for the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13) is over and the market now takes a breather.

15/03/2014 (The Star) - Banks and plantation stocks were among the major losers at the close of trading on Friday as investors avoided riskier assets ahead of the referendum in Crimea over the weekend and a slowdown in China's economy.

15/03/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - Commodity market regulator Forward Markets Commission has extended trade timings in a few internationally-linked agriculture commodities up to 11.30 pm and directed exchanges to discontinue trading in agriculture commodities on Saturdays.

15/03/2014 (Business Recorder) - Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

15/03/2014 (Biofuels International) - Indonesia's Pertamina is set to offer a third tender to buy palm oil for biodiesel blending, before the end of April.

15/03/2014 (Peacefmonline.com) - Eleni, a private company positioned as the premier commodity exchange promoter in Africa, has announced today the formation of a private-public investment consortium to finance the establishment of the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX).

14/03/2014 (Reuters) - India's palm oil imports fell to 403,685 tonnes in February from 555,446 tonnes in the previous month, its second straight monthly drop, data from the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) showed on Friday.

14/03/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - High volatility in futures market amid slack physical demand kept volume thin on the edible oils markets.

14/03/2014 (Asia Times) - Multinational food giant Mars has unveiled a new set of guidelines aimed at ensuring that its palm oil supply lines are completely traceable and sustainable by next year. Global demand for palm oil has increased substantially in recent years, for use in both foods and household goods. Yet the industry, overwhelmingly centered in Malaysia and Indonesia, has been rife with environmental and labor problems.

14/03/2014 (Indonesia Investments) - Prices of certain food commodities increased significantly due to a combination of political tensions in Ukraine, weak harvests and a possible new El Niño cycle (periodical warm ocean water temperatures off the western coast of South America that can cause climatic changes across the Pacific Ocean). El Niño is a well known weather phenomenon that occurs once every five years on average. However, its impact on the weather, harvests and the world varies; it can pass almost unnoticeable (such as in 2010) but it can also be felt worldwide.