**Please note – There will be no Vegetable Oil bulletin on Monday, January 1.**

Post-Christmas spot market trading was extremely sluggish in the U.S on Tuesday. Cash indications on Miss. Valley cottonseed oil (CSO) eased about two cents to 62 cents per pound. Since the start of this year, CSO prices have fallen 36 cents per pound, or about 36.7 percent. 

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