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19/10/2013 (The Hill) - A major palm oil producer hasn’t given up trying to reverse a preliminary 2012 Environmental Protection Agency finding that biofuels produced from palm oil don’t meet the greenhouse gas standards of the federal biofuels mandate.

19/10/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil gained for a second week on speculation that rising exports from Malaysia may curb a build-up in stockpiles in the world’s second-largest producer.

19/10/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Malaysian palm oil futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended higher on Friday, reversing some losses of the previous session after the ringgit eased a little. However, hopes of a lower-than-expected rise in stocks lifted prices to help palm oil post its second weekly rise in a row. A minor rise in production growth in October, along with robust demand, is expected to keep stocks below the psychological level of two million tonnes this year. Cargo surveyor data showed that exports of Malaysian palm oil in the first half of October rose to between 7,81,043 tonnes and 7,99,853 tonnes, some 7-12 per cent higher from a month earlier. Market players will be waiting for export data for the October 1-20 period, due on October 21, to gauge further demand. Energy prices tanked as US inventory data pointed to a well-supplied market, denting sentiment for the edible oil complex.

19/10/2013 (Indonesia Investments) - Indonesia Investments has updated the company profile of Bakrie Sumatera Plantations. The company is an Indonesian integrated agribusiness company that engages in oil palm and rubber plantations.

18/10/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower on Thursday as investors booked profits from a five-week high that was buoyed by robust exports and optimism that output volumes in the world's second-largest producer may not surge as much as initially expected.

18/10/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils prices rose on Thursday tracking firm futures market amid tight physical supply. Malaysian palm oil ruled firm during the day but profit booking pulled it down later.

18/10/2013 (Oxford Business Group) - The palm oil industry in Malaysia appears set for an uncertain few months, with a number of factors coming into play over the last quarter of the year that could push already low prices down even further, just at the time when production is about to peak.

18/10/2013 (PIA) - Seven members of the Indonesian investment team from two Indonesian government owned and controlled companies named PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) and Pertamina paid visit here for an investment mission particularly to expand Indonesia’s oil palm industry in the Philippines, utilizing idle lands in the hinterlands in order that they become productive.

18/10/2013 (Indonesia Investments) - Business players within Indonesia\'s palm oil sector have expressed concern about a recently introduced law that stipulates limits to plantations sizes, including oil palm plantations. The government of Indonesia issued law Permentan No 98/Permentan/OT.140/9/2013 that sets maximum boundaries to the surface area of eleven commodities. The palm oil industry of Indonesia now argues that targets mentioned in the country\'s palm oil roadmap cannot be met. For example, the production target of 40 million tons of palm oil by 2020 is in jeopardy.

18/10/2013 (Bernama) - Malaysian exhibitors at the recently-concluded Tehran International Industry Exhibition clinched business deals worth RM664.65 million.

18/10/2013 (Marketwired) - Feronia Inc. ("Feronia" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:FRN) is pleased to announce the commencement of palm oil production at its Yaligimba plantation in the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

18/10/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil advanced to the highest level in more than five weeks after the U.S. Congress voted to end a 16-day government shutdown, and as rising Malaysian exports signaled growing demand.