Oil firmed over $61 a barrel on Friday after data showed the United States was shrugging off high oil prices and the rapidly expanding Chinese market was burning more fuel. Strong spending by US consumers

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The yield-cutting soyabean rust fungus was discovered in three new counties in Alabama, the US Agriculture Department said late Thursday on its rust-monitoring Web site. The fungus was found on a kudzu leaf in St.

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Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2006 475.00 +0.00 February 2006/April 2006 475.00 +0.00 May 2006/July 2006 475.00 +0.00. RAPEOIL: Dutch/EU euro tonne fob ex-mill

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Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2006 475.00 +0.00 February 2006/April 2006 475.00 +0.00 May 2006/July 2006 475.00 +0.00. RAPEOIL: Dutch/EU euro tonne fob ex-mill

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London cocoa slipped on Friday as speculators deemed recent gains overdone and producer pressure hung over the market, traders said. Liffe's most-active December contract finished 12 pounds lower at 825 pounds a tonne after volume

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Cotton futures garnered speculative and trade buying to finish higher Friday as the market rebounded from a fall to a one-month low and could crawl higher going into next week, brokers said. New York Board

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Recent rains in Argentina gave dry soils a needed quenching and will facilitate 2005/06 soyabean and corn seedings in much of the farming heartland, the government said on Friday. Argentine farmers are seeding the new

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London Metal Exchange (LME) three months copper ended lower on Friday after a volatile performance in slim business ahead of options declarations next week, dealers said. The market bounced between a high of $3,906 and

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Gold was knocked off the day's highs after better-than-expected US data lent support to the dollar, although bullion stabilised around $470 an ounce, dealers said. Platinum and palladium, used mainly in jewellery and to clean

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US coffee futures fell Friday for the third day running as market players sold on long-term crop output prospects from No 1 producer Brazil, rather than fret about short-term crop damage in Central America, traders

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