Pause in publication of Asia palm, palm product price assessments

Fastmarkets will not publish price assessments for a range of palm oil and palm oil products across key Asia trading hubs between January 27 and February 4 due to the Lunar New Year holiday.

A full list of affected prices follows. Normal service will resume on Wednesday February 5.

Pause in publication January 29-30, due to Singapore holiday
AG-PLM-0008 Crude Palm Oil, domestic, Malaysia, ringgit per tonne
AG-PLM-0009 Crude Palm Oil, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0010 Refined Bleached Deodorised (RBD) Palm Olein, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0011 Crude Palm Oil, fob Indonesia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0012 Refined Bleached Deodorised (RBD) Palm Olein, fob Indonesia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0013 Crude Palm Oil, cnf West Coast India, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0014 Crude Palm Oil, cnf East Coast India, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0020 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm oil, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0021 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm stearin, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0022 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm stearin, fob Indonesia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0023 Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD), fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0024 Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD), fob Indonesia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0025 Crude palm kernel oil, domestic, Central Malaysia, ringgit per picul
AG-PLM-0026 Crude palm kernel oil, domestic, South Malaysia, ringgit per picul
AG-PLM-0028 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm kernel olein, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0030 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm kernel oil, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne
AG-PLM-0032 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm kernel stearin, fob Malaysia, $ per tonne.

Pause in publication January 28-February 4, due to China holiday
AG-PLM-0019 Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm olein, cfr South China, $ per tonne.

Pause in publication January 27-30, due to Indonesia/Singapore holidays
AG-PLM-0017 Crude palm oil, Indonesia PTPN tender, rupiah per kg.

The affected prices are in the Fastmarkets Agriculture Oils, Fats, and Biofuels pricing packages.

For more information, or to provide feedback on the publication of these assessments, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these assessments, please contact Sathia Varqa by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Sathia Varqa, re: China soybean price assessments.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to: https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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