Malaysian Palm Oil Exports fall 15% Mid-Aug

Malaysian palm oil exports of 512,039 metric tons are 14.6% less than what was seen over the first 15 days of July and 30% less than the 733,369 MT shipped over the first half of August 2016. This should be worrisome to the market, as export activity generally trends significantly higher during August.  Last year, 1.8 million metric tons was exported.  In 2015, 1.7 million was shipped.  Given the…