
Vietnamese 5% broken rice rose to $500-505 per tonne, the highest since December 2011, on thin domestic supplies and continued Philippine buying. Thai benchmark prices dipped slightly from a multi-month high as high prices cooled demand.
Bangladesh plans to cut its rice import duty to 25% from 62.5%.
Tight Vietnamese supplies and firm Philippine demand support export rice prices, while the Bangladesh duty cut could lift Asian import demand.
After 189 past bullish trade events, Rough Rice moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (52% higher; middle half -1.7% to +2.4%), and +1.0% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.