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Palm oil prices are rising on recovering demand from China and India. Labor shortages in producing countries caused by the coronavirus pandemic are also tightening supply.
The Bursa Malaysia index price was 3,064 ringgit a ton in mid-October, up 38% year on year.
Stronger Asian import demand combined with reduced output supports palm oil prices. Higher palm prices also lift the cost of competing vegetable oils and the wider edible oil complex used in feed.
asia.nikkei.comRURIKA IMAHASHI, ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writersOct 25, 2020After 133 past bullish trade events, Palm Oil moved a median +0.7% over 5 sessions (64% higher; middle half -0.8% to +2.3%), and +1.7% 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.
