Fastmarkets will change the publication timing for its Australia and New Zealand fats and oils price assessments to Thursday 4pm Singapore time from Thursday 12 noon US Central time, effective July 23, 2026.

Fastmarkets has amended the dates for publication for the following in its pricing holidays calendar to show Friday June 19 as a publishing day, which was previously marked as a non-publishing day.

US wheat futures and Euronext contracts were mixed on Tuesday June 16, with most US contracts moving lower, while Chicago soft red winter wheat futures posted gains. Euronext contracts also moved higher during the session. Global cash markets remained subdued, with limited activity as buyers largely stayed on the sidelines. Black Sea wheat prices are starting to trend lower under seasonal harvest pressure, while Australia, Europe and Argentina were broadly steady.

Soybean and soybean meal futures continued to ride on the coattails of the bullish National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) crush report on Tuesday June 16, with market chatter that China is bidding on — or indeed may have already bought — US beans for February, giving much-lauded impetus to further increases in futures markets over the period.

The price assessment of AG-CCN-0003 crude coconut oil, fob Philippines, $/tonne will be published as normal for June 17.

Fastmarkets has corrected the May monthly average for AG-SC-0001 Sausage casings, resale, European hog runners, whiskered, ex-works Europe, €/strand due to a procedural lapse.

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Soybean oil bases in Argentina and Brazil hit a record spread to their counterpart in the US Gulf on June 1, with a mix of biofuel policies, harvest pressures and export competition against rival oils creating massive regional divergences, although the spread decreased by the end of last week amid a CME soyoil futures sell-off.

The Trump administration has concluded its investigation against Brazil under Section 301, with the country’s Trade Representative Jamieson Greer proposing a 25% tariff on the South American country’s imports but putting forth a list of exempted items.

EU wheat exports reached 19.23 million tonnes as of May 31, according to European Commission data, yet weekly flow data from Rouen port collapsed 66.6% to 72,923 tonnes in the week to June 3, pointing to a sharp deceleration in physical trade.