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Flash

The 3-4 page FLASH is published daily from Tuesday to Friday and is circulated by e-mail. The report gives daily analyses, daily prices, forecasts and opinion on the pertinent market topics of today and tomorrow. It serves the world’s oilseed, oil and feed industries and other market participants with reliable and unbiased information.

SAMPLE

Wednesday March 27

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Palm oil prices have declined from their peak during the week in review, partly due to prospects of increasing production and export supplies in coming months…

  • World production of palm oil declined by about 0.5 Mn T from a year earlier in Jan/March 2024, according to our revised estimate, as we point out in the FLASH, where we also give reference to the export volume…

  • In the European Union linseed crushings as well as supplies of lin oil and meal would be significantly reduced, if the EU commission implements prohibitively high import duties of 50% on Russian oilseeds, as we discuss in detail in the FLASH…

  • In the Republic of South Africa import requirements of sunflower oil as well as of soya oil will increase sharply in the next 12 months…

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Tuesday March 26

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Requirements of vegetable oils, animal fats and UCO for the production of biodiesel and HVO increased by 25% on the year in the USA, Brazil and Argentina to a combined 9.2 Mn T in Oct/Febr 2023/24, thus sharply exceeding earlier expectations. Details in the FLASH…

  • World exports of soybeans have increased from last year’s level in Jan/March 2024, contrary to earlier expectations of a decline. We explain this mainly by larger shipments to China…

  • Soybean harvesting in South America delayed by rains and excessively wet fields in the two weeks to April 11…

  • Peruvian fish meal exports expected to be very small in March, April and the first half of May…

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Thursday March 21

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • In Russia exports of sunflower oil have accelerated and we estimate them to reach a record 1.4 Mn T in Jan/March 2024. In the FLASH we give further details and the breakdown for the major destinations…

  • Additional weather-caused damage to soybeans and corn in parts of central Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay…

  • Brazilian soybean prices strengthened relative to US origin, but are still offered at a discount…

  • EU imports and consumption of palm oil have declined sharply so far this season….

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Wednesday March 20

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Malaysian palm oil futures resumed their uptrend on March 20 and appreciated to a new 12-month high of 4300 ringgit in the third contract…

  • The current high price premiums of palm oil vis-à-vis other edible oils are unlikely to be sustained on the world market…

  • There is more downward potential in soya meal prices on the world market, due to increasing South American production and export supplies in April/Sept 2024…

  • China has to step up purchases of palm oil on the world market, due to current very low stocks following a sharp decline in palm oil imports by 28% on the year in Jan/Febr 2024..

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