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Flash

The 3-4 page FLASH is published daily from Tuesday to Friday and is circulated by e-mail. The report gives daily analyses, daily prices, forecasts and opinion on the pertinent market topics of today and tomorrow. It serves the world’s oilseed, oil and feed industries and other market participants with reliable and unbiased information.

SAMPLE

Tuesday Oct 15

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Price pressure stemmed from confirmation of a bumper US crop and improving rainfall in South America...

  • Malaysian palm oil exports to countries in Asia and Africa increased sharply in the past 12 months...

  • Strong US import demand kept world exports of tallow sharply above the year-ago level in July/Sept 2024...

  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Imports of rapeseed & canola increased sharply to an estimated 0.34 Mn T in July/Sept 2024, virtually doubling on the year...

 

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Thursday Oct 10

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Arrival of rainfall in South America has been the catalyst for the decline in soybean prices in the futures and cash markets worldwide during the week in review.... A closer analysis, however, points to several trouble spots with still significant soil moisture deficits primarily in central and northern Brazil as well as in parts of Argentina...

  • Argentine imports of soybeans exceeded expectations at about 650-700 Thd T in September, most of which from Paraguay...

  • Malaysia boosted palm oil exports by 1.0 Mn T from a year earlier to 4.77 Mn T in July/Sept 2024, thereby raising its share of world exports to at least 36% from 27% both one and two years earlier....

  • Smaller shipments to China curbed world exports of soybeans to an 8-month low in September.....

  • This year's Ukrianian production shortfall will reduce sunflowerseed disposals in 2024/25. September export data in the FLASH...

 

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Wednesday Oct 9

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Soybean futures declined on the CBOT in response to beneficial rains received in many parts of South America....

  • In 2024/25 the discrepancy between ambitious national biofuel targets and tightening feedstock supplies is seen widening. This dilemma can probably be solved only by a proactive downward adjustment of admixture mandates and/or an underfulfillment of them via market forces...

  • US imports of 17 oils & fats declined to a 14-month low in August, curbed by the slowdown in domestic demand and weakness in US vegetable oil prices....

  • In several parts of Ukraine and Russia plantings of winter grains and rapeseed have been delayed by dryness and comparatively high temperatures....

 

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Tuesday Oct 8

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Vegetable oil prices are seen appreciating to 3-year highs in Jan/June 2025, according to our current forecast, details of which are given in the FLASH…
  • In the nearby, however, prices of soya oil and palm oil may fell back slightly, following the sharp increase of the preceding three weeks…

  • Arrival of urgently needed rains in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay are now improving soil moisture supplies, thus allowing delayed plantings to catch up….

  • Palm oil production will, most likely, be below potential worldwide again in Oct/Sept 2024/25…

  • In Argentina corn plantings will probably not be reduced as sharply as anticipated earlier, as we point out in the FLASH…

  • In Brazil soybean crushings are falling short of expectations in Sept and Oct in favour of soybean exports…

 

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