According to Intertek, Malaysian palm oil exports dropped by 6% to 4,50,269 tonnes in the first 10 days of
May against last month for the corresponding period...
According to secondary sources, India’s vegetable oil imports in April’12 were about 9,25,000 tonnes as compared with
7,27,000 tonnes in March’12 and 4,75,000 tonnes against last year...
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US weekly export sales soybeans were higher against expectations at 466,500 metric tonnes for the current marketing
year and 1.36 million tonnes for the next marketing year for a total of 1.827 million tonnes...
US soybeans producers planted about 24% of the soybean
crop by May 6, which was eighteen percentage points ahead of last year and 13 points ahead of the 5-year average...
According to USDA, US ending stocks for 2011-12 were at 210 million bushels, which was slightly higher against
expectations against 250 million in previous month...