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18/07/2013 (Bernama) - CIMB Investment Bank has initiated Ta Ann Holdings Bhd's short-term rating with a "trading buy" as it expects the company to report stronger timber earnings in upcoming quarterly results in August.

18/07/2013 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

17/07/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures fell to the lowest in more than seven months on Tuesday, as worries persisted over weak exports and higher output of the tropical oil.

17/07/2013 (Bernama) - Boustead Holdings Bhd has proposed to privatize Al-Hadharah Boustead Real Estate Investment Trust (Boustead REIT) to list an enlarged Boustead Plantations Bhd (BPB) on Bursa Malaysia.

17/07/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil dropped for a fifth day to trade near the lowest level in more than two months on speculation that demand from China, the world’s biggest buyer after India, may weaken as an economic slowdown deepens.

17/07/2013 (Bloomberg) - Global supplies of vegetable oils are set to expand in the next season as production made from palm climbs to a record and output from soybeans and sunflower seed jumps, Oil World said.

17/07/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil shipments from Indonesia, the largest producer, unexpectedly declined last month to the lowest level since April because of reduced purchases by India and China, the top buyers.

17/07/2013 (Indonesia Investments) - The recovery in global palm oil prices that seemed to have started last spring, has ended. A few months ago, optimism had colored expectations of many analysts as palm oil prices went up about 10 percent between early May and mid-June, after tumbling 30 percent in 2012 (causing that palm oil was one of the worst performing commodities in terms of price growth last year). However, the palm oil price increase earlier this year was merely the result of falling production rates in Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's largest palm oil producers.

17/07/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Bearish trend continued in edible oils market on Tuesday on slack demand and weak futures. Malaysian palm oil futures extended their loss for the fifth consecutive day as worries over weak export demand and a higher production persisted.

17/07/2013 (Mongabay.com) - Greenpeace and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets criteria for greener palm oil production, are caught up in a row over the origin of fires that cast a pall over Sumatra, Singapore, and Malaysia last month.

17/07/2013 (Eco-business.com) - Shoppers here can buy Fair Trade coffee, organic chocolate and Singapore Green Label notebooks. But they will struggle to find such labels for sustainable palm oil.

17/07/2013 (Business Recorder) - Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.