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VEGOILS-Market factors to watch April 25

Reuters

The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and

other vegetable oil markets.

FUNDAMENTALS

* Malaysian palm oil futures finished unchanged on Thursday, after declining 1.2

percent in the previous session as expectations of only a marginal increase in

exports capped prices.

* U.S. wheat futures jumped nearly 2 percent on Thursday on concerns about dry

conditions in the U.S. Plains winter wheat belt and some key production areas of

Western Europe as well as worries about tensions in eastern Ukraine.

* Brent crude futures rose by more than a dollar a barrel on Thursday as mutual

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accusations of aggression by Ukraine and Russia raised concerns over future oil

supplies, while strong U.S. economic data suggested higher demand.

MARKET NEWS

* Asian stocks struggled to rise on Friday, as the impact of upbeat U.S.

economic data and robust U.S. tech shares faced off against fears of an

escalating Ukraine crisis that bolstered the safe-haven yen.

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DATA/EVENTS

> Cargo surveyors Intertek Testing Services and Societe Generale de Surveillance

to release Malaysia's April 1-25 palm oil export data on April 25.

Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 0150 GMT

Contract Month Last Change Low High Volume

MY PALM OIL MAY4 0 +0.00 0 0 0

MY PALM OIL JUN4 0 +0.00 0 0 0

MY PALM OIL JUL4 0 +0.00 0 0 0

CHINA PALM OLEIN SEP4 6158 +18.00 6148 6176 87416

CHINA SOYOIL SEP4 6962 +12.00 6954 6982 122784

CBOT SOY OIL JUL4 42.86 +0.00 42.76 43.04 1742

NYMEX CRUDE JUN4 101.94 +0.00 101.81 102.05 2195

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

Crude in U.S. dollars per barrel

* For a table on Malaysian physical palm oil prices, including refined oil,

Reuters Terminal users can double click on or type.

* To view freight rates from Peninsula Malaysia/Sumatra to China, India,

Pakistan and Rotterdam, please key in and press enter, or double

click between the brackets.

* Reuters Terminal users can see cash and futures edible oil prices by

double clicking on the codes in the brackets: To go to the next page in the same

chain, hit F12. To go back, hit F11.

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