Archive for February 2005
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India has sold 40,000 tonnes of rapeseed meal to Indonesia in a recent deal and traders said on Thursday the country could double its total annual exports of the meal because of competitive prices and
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Prices of Sri Lanka teas were lower at the latest auction as dry weather affected crops in many parts of the island, affecting quality, brokers said. The estimated gross sales average from the auction on
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Raw sugar futures closed lower on Wednesday on speculative liquidation due to switch business, but trade buying believed linked to consumer interest trimmed the market's losses, brokers said. The New York Board of Trade's March
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Soyabean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade fell on Wednesday on a technical setback from this week's fund-led short-covering rally, but came off lows late amid heavy call buying, traders said. ADM Investor Services
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Philippine millers are scheduled to sell 15,000 tonnes of raw sugar on Friday for export, James Leeds, administrator of the Sugar Regulatory Administration, said on Thursday. Leeds said the sugar, which is expected to be
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Tokyo rubber futures settled mostly lower on Thursday as investors took profits amid a lack of fresh positive incentives from the currency market and physical trade. The benchmark July rubber contract on the Tokyo Commodity
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The Chicago Board of Trade rough rice futures dived on Wednesday, with the spot price hitting a 1-1/2 year low on follow-through technical selling, traders said. This was the second day in a row that
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Malaysian crude palm oil futures rose 1.3 percent on Thursday on continued short-covering that kept the market above the key psychological level of 1,300 ringgit despite a lack of new leads. New import tariffs in
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Russia still sees a merger of gas monopoly Gazprom and state oil firm Rosneft as the only way to liberalise its energy sector, a minister was quoted as saying on Thursday, despite clouds gathering over
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Boeing has not seen a big impact on airlines' orders for new planes from high oil prices, and if prices stay high for much longer the effect would be positive, Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher said
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