Cash vegetable oil trading remains thin, soy oil futures sink again

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Cash vegetable oil trading remains thin, soy oil futures sink again

Activity in the US cash vegetable oil market remained very quiet on Tuesday June 4.

Fastmarkets assessed soybean oil, basis, crude/de-gummed, fob US Gulf for rail delivery and in-tank transfers as high as 50 basis points above the July soybean oil futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

Though basis levels shifted slightly upward into narrower ranges, soy oil futures prices declined for a second consecutive session, leaving Fastmarkets’ price assessment for soybean oil, crud...

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