12.06.2019 (The Edge Markets MY) - KUALA LUMPUR (June 12): Malaysian palm oil futures fell by more than 2% on Wednesday to hit their lowest levels in a month, triggered by weakness in U.S. soyoil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Palm oil prices had were earlier traded within a range, with the competing forces of expectations for bullish industry data and weakness in soyoil and crude oil prices.

Malaysia's palm oil stockpiles at the end of May dropped 10.3% from the previous month to 2.45 million tonnes, industry regulator the Malaysian Palm Oil Board said on Wednesday.

Production in May rose 1.3% month-on-month to 1.67 million tonnes. Exports climbed 3.5% from April to 1.71 million tonnes last month, the MPOB data showed.

The benchmark palm oil contract for August delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange was last down 1.8% at 1,971 ringgit (US$474.37) per tonne at the close of trade, its sharpest daily decline in a week.

It earlier fell as much as 2.1% to 1,964 ringgit, its lowest level since May 13.

"Market gains earlier were capped by weaker external markets," a futures trader in Kuala Lumpur said, referring to CBOT U.S. soyoil, adding that the market's subsequent decline was due to sharper soyoil falls.

The Chicago July soybean oil contract, which had fallen 0.6% on Tuesday, was down 0.8%.

Meanwhile, the September soyoil contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange fell 1% and the Dalian September palm oil contract eased 1.1%.

Palm oil prices are affected by movements in related edible oils, with which it competes for global market share.   

 Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 1030 GMT

 Contract                         Month      Last       Change     Low      High      Volume

 MY PALM OIL                JUN9         0           +0.00          0          0             0

 MY PALM OIL                 JUL9      1968        -33.00      1964    2010        2680

 MY PALM OIL                AUG9      1971        -36.00      1964    2015       22156

 CHINA PALM OLEIN      SEP9      4344        -50.00      4340    4402     569046

 CHINA SOYOIL             SEP9       5408       -52.00       5400    5480     400048

 CBOT SOY OIL              JUL9      26.99         -0.23      26.93    27.32      7352

 INDIA PALM OIL            JUN9     493.80        -4.90     492.00    500.6      1145

 INDIA SOYOIL               JUN9       748.5        +2.15      743.2     749.6     5550

 NYMEX CRUDE             JUL9       51.84         -1.43      51.46     53.05   166048

 Palm oil prices in Malaysian ringgit per tonne

 CBOT soy oil in U.S. cents per pound

 Dalian soy oil and RBD palm olein in Chinese yuan per tonne

 India soy oil in Indian rupee per 10 kg

 Crude in U.S. dollars per barrel

(US$1 = 4.1550 ringgit)

(US$1 = 69.3340 Indian rupees)

(US$1 = 6.9187 Chinese yuan)