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In contrast to a dimming global economic outlook, some equity strategists are hopeful of improvements in corporate earnings for the coming results season.

Using the United Nations as his stage, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad made his case against attempts to ban the import of palm oil, describing it as a classic case of blocking free trade.

India, the world’s biggest buyer of palm oil, is considering a proposal to further increase import taxes on the refined variety to boost local processing and cut dependence on overseas purchases, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, is anticipating a boost in exports of the commodity to China, taking advantage of an opportunity opened up by the escalating trade war between Beijing and Washington.

Most palm oil producers, processors and traders can’t fully trace where their supplies came from and should do more to check that what they buy meets their sustainability targets, according to an international conservation charity.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) could become the world’s largest free trade zone, comprising 16 countries that account for a third of global gross domestic product and nearly half the world’s population.

The commodities market, especially crude oil and crude palm oil (CPO) has been climbing steadily in the final quarter of 2019.

As Malaysia and the European Union continue engaging in a dispute over the sustainability of palm oil production, the local palm oil market faces another challenge — with its largest buyer and the world’s biggest edible oil importer, India.

Japan’s Nikkei index rose to the highest in more than a year on Tuesday as optimism that the United States and China can scale back their bruising trade war buoyed hopes for higher corporate earnings.

Rather than spending time to develop environmental and social criteria, India could use the existing global norms for imports

World's dominant palm oil producers, Indonesia and Malaysia contribute 87 per cent of the global supply -- creating a duopoly market of the most versatile edible oil.

A court in Indonesia has ordered palm oil company PT Arjuna Utama Sawit to pay the equivalent of $18.6 million in fines and damages for fires on its land in Borneo in 2015, in the latest instance of a zero-tolerance