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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

Thursday Dec 5

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 continued to command unusually large price premiums vis-a-vis soya, rapeseed and sunflower oils so far this week....While there are fundamental factors that support the recent rally in palm oil prices, these large premiums over other vegetable oils can only be temporary....

  • Peruvian fish oil output is likely to turn out significantly lower in the Nov/Jan 2024/25 season than initially expected, pushing aqua-grade prices higher this week...

  • World exports of sunflower oil have apparently exceeded expectations in Sept/Nov 2024 and even increased from a year earlier...

  • Booming US production of ethanol has resulted in ample supplies of corn-processing by-products, primarily of distillers dried grains (DDGS) ...

 

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Wednesday Dec 4

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.

  • The recent removal of the export tax rebate on used cooking oil (UCO) in China has resulted in a significant increase of UCO prices on the world market, affecting mainly importers in the USA, Europe and Singapore....

  • EU rapeseed prices recovered sizeably so far this week, with the nearby contract on the Matif up 4% from a week earlier ....

  • Higher reference prices have triggered further increases in Indonesian export taxes and levies in December and the next upward revision may already follow in January....

  • On Dec 3, negotiators from the EU Parliament and Council finally reached a political agreement to postpone the application of EUDR by 12 months, which will now have to be formally adopted during the Parliament’s session on Dec 16-19 ...

  • Soya meal demand is increasing sharply also in Asia. In Sept and Oct 2024, imports of soybeans & soya meal of 5 Asian countries increased steeply to a combined 18.0 Mn T on a soya meal equivalent basis...

 

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Tuesday Dec 3

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.

  • Sharply higher US soybean disposals in the first four months of the 2024/25 season are currently more than offset by favourable South American production prospects...

  • Argentine soya oil exports to India skyrocketed to around 1.0 Mn T in Sept/Nov 2024 (vs. 0.2 Mn T a year earlier)...

  • US consumption of soya oil reached a record of an estimated 1.16 Mn T in October, keeping stocks very small at only 0.67 Mn T at the end of October, equivalent to only 17 days of consumption....

  • The larger than initially expected Argentine groundnut area may magnify the export surplus shaping up on the world market in the season 2024/25....

 

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Thursday Nov 28

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.

  • Crushings of soybeans and canola were re cently boosted to record levels in the USA, Argen tina and Canada and also sunseed processing in Russia exceeded expectations of late. This has resulted in relatively ample supplies of seed oils ...

  • Canadian canola disposals increased by 1.5 Mn T or 35% in Aug/Oct 2024, driven by the heavily frontloaded ...

  •  Indian vegetable oil importers have quickly ad justed to the change in price differentials on the world market. Unusually strong price competitiveness has resulted in booming Argentine soya oil exports to India ...

  • The situation for Russian rapeseed crushers is very complex. This year’s record crop of an estimated 4.9 Mn T (up 0.7 Mn T from a year earlier) has set the stage for a further sizeable increase ...

 

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