Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures extended gains for a third straight session on Friday and posted a weekly gain of 5.5 percent after touching a seven-year low earlier in the week, helped by a Thai measure to help farmers by buying the commodity at above-market prices.
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange rubber contract for June delivery finished 0.4 yen higher at 157.7 yen per kg, after hitting 159.8 yen earlier, the highest since December 30.
The most-active rubber contract on the Shanghai futures exchange for May delivery fell 35 yuan to finish at 9,795 yuan per tonne, after data showed that China's bank lending slowed in December.
The front-month rubber contract on Singapore's SICOM exchange for February delivery last traded at 107.8 US cents per kg, down 0.1 cent.
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