Cotton prices firmed again on Wednesday as speculative investors placed fresh bets on higher prices after the fibres market broke above a short-term trendline following Tuesday's US Department of Agriculture crop report. New speculative buying

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The most-traded March copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange slipped 0.64 percent to close at 57,610 yuan ($9,200) a tonne on Thursday, bruised by the struggles of US lawmakers to resolve their fiscal troubles

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Copper fell on Thursday as an impasse in US budget talks showed little sign of being resolved and a Federal Reserve decision to tie its monetary policy to unemployment raised concerns that its economic stimulus

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Oil prices fell on Thursday as concern about the rising risk of US recession given the lack of a deal to avert mandated 2013 tax increases and spending cuts countered support from positive weekly US

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Key TOCOM rubber futures edged down on Thursday, reversing earlier gains to a two-month high, as a fall in gold prices on fading hopes of further monetary easing dragged down other commodities and prompted investors

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Thursday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL EU degummed: euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2013 unquoted February 2013/April 2013 890.00 -15.00 May 2013/July 2013 861.00 -14.00. RAPEOIL Dutch/EU: euro tonne fob ex-mill February

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Thursday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL EU degummed: euro tonne fob ex-mill January 2013 unquoted February 2013/April 2013 890.00 -15.00 May 2013/July 2013 861.00 -14.00. RAPEOIL Dutch/EU: euro tonne fob ex-mill February

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US wheat futures declined for a fourth straight session on Wednesday, setting a five-month low and adding to Tuesday's loss of more than 3 percent after the US government forecast hefty stockpiles. Corn fell to

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Malaysian palm oil futures fell on Thursday to their lowest in more than three years, as record stocks and concerns that US fiscal woes might drag on global growth spooked investors. Despite announcements of more

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Raw sugar and arabica coffee futures on ICE slid on Thursday, hitting their lowest levels in more than two years on concern about surplus supplies. Cocoa futures on both Liffe and ICE Futures US were

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