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04/03/2014 (Reuters) - India's palm oil imports are set to drop 6 percent in the year to October 2014, with buyers opting for rival soybean oil as the price spread between the two narrows, traders said on Monday.

04/03/2014 (Bloomberg) - Plans by Malaysia, the world’s largest palm oil producer after Indonesia, to increase consumption in biodiesel may support prices, said Douglas Uggah Embas, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister.

04/03/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm, the world’s most-consumed edible oil, will see prices influenced by a potential El Nino weather event and increased biodiesel demand from Indonesia, according to Dorab Mistry, director at Godrej International Ltd.

04/03/2014 (Wall Street Journal) - Palm-oil prices are on a run this week after the crisis in Ukraine escalated--encouraging gains as trade participants bet on higher biodiesel demand after crude-oil prices climbed 2% Monday.

03/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose 1.6 per cent for the week on Friday as it rebounded from Thursday’s losses.

03/03/2014 (Bernama) - The Crude palm oil (CPO) futures contract on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives is likely to trade between RM2,770 and RM2,870 per tonne next week on expectation of lower inventories.

03/03/2014 (Bloomberg) - A jump in palm oil consumption for biodiesel in Indonesia, the world’s biggest supplier, will probably mean that shipments fail to increase this year for the first time since 2010 even as production climbs to a record.

03/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - Sarawak’s major plantations stocks were generally affected by the volatility in average selling prices for crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel (PK), but analysts remain optimistic that 2014 will be a year of growth for the plantations sector.

03/03/2014 (The Nation) - The government is in process of negotiations with Federal Land Development Authority of Malaysia to initiate large scale oilpalm plantation in coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan.

03/03/2014 (The Star) - Common knowledge says that eating saturated fat raises your cholesterol levels. And as we also know, high cholesterol levels are a risk factor for coronary artery disease and stroke.

03/03/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil climbed to the highest level in more than 17 months on speculation that dry weather in the main palm and soybean growing areas may weaken prospects for global cooking oil production.

01/03/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Friday, recouping early losses as traders banked on a bullish global oilseeds scene in a key industry meet next week, while concerns that dry weather will hinder output lifted benchmark prices to their biggest monthly gain since October 2013.