Soybean Oil Falls Ahead of Monthly USDA Data
World vegetable oil prices fell on Monday, but despite the decline, the benchmark contracts in the soybean oil and palm oil markets settled between the upper Bollinger band and five-day exponential moving average, suggesting the recent trend remains intact. However, selling in the front end of the soybean curve could mean further downside risk for vegetable oil futures. The weather forecast for Argentina turned drier over the weekend, but unexpected rainfall in Cordoba during the weekend, may have contributed to profit-taking on Monday.
The declines left the spread between the May soybean oil and palm oil contracts just above 8.19 cents per pound. However, the spread settled at the lower end of the day’s range between eight and 9.58 cents. The July spread settled just below 10 cents, a level providing significant resistance in…
04.19.2024
Reduced March RIN production not leading to higher RIN Prices
Total March biofuel RIN production was 1.9 billion RINs, which was 6% below February and 15% below December’s RIN output of 2.25 billion. December had the largest monthly production...
04.19.2024
CWG, YG higher on week, UCO, DCO down again
The market was quiet heading into the weekend. Used cooking oil (UCO) traded in large volume into the Gulf at 40 cents per lb delivered in the truck market.
04.19.2024
Price pressure on ruminant and porcine items for the week
Sloppy markets were reported for porcine and ruminant items at the close of week ending Friday April 19.
Wide ranges were witnessed on porcine bloodmeal (BM), with a...