Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market eased on Tuesday following a weaker trend in palm and soyaoil futures and energy markets. Soyaoil futures fell on the back of better than expected weekly crop conditions, while palm oil futures eased on profit taking and talk that production in July may not be as bad as expected.
Asking prices for palm oil were between $7.50 and $12.50 per tonne lower after Malaysian palm oil futures closed between 13 and 24 ringgit per tonne down. "Cooler weather in the US Midwest pushed prices even lower," one broker said. At 1630 GMT, CBOT soyaoil futures dropped by between 0.61 and 0.76 cents per lb, tracking a steep fall in Chicago soyabeans on beneficial crop weather and better than expected crop conditions. Sharply lower energy markets also weighed.
EU rapeoil was offered between seven and 10 euros per tonne down from Monday, following sharply lower CBOT soyaoil futures and weaker rapeseed futures, which tracked Chicago soyabean futures. Coconut oil was offered between unchanged and $10 a tonne up on the back of a weaker dollar, which supports products quoted in that currency, and because of some buying interest. Palmkernel oil eased between $5 and $15 a tonne, tracking lower palm oil prices on optimism over July production.