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Flash

The 3-4 page FLASH is published daily from Tuesday to Friday and is circulated by e-mail. The report gives daily analyses, daily prices, forecasts and opinion on the pertinent market topics of today and tomorrow. It serves the world’s oilseed, oil and feed industries and other market participants with reliable and unbiased information.

SAMPLE

Thursday Oct 17

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Soybean prices have come under selling pressure in the cash and futures markets so far in October due to arrival of rainfall in several parts of Argentina and Brazil...However, these rains were not sufficient to replenish soil moisture deficits. The biggest problems are currently in central and northern Brazil...

  • The area under soybeans worldwide is seen expanding more than usually in 2024/25, while there will be no increases in the sunflower and rapeseed...We estimate the soybean area available for harvest worldwide at 145.4 Mn ha in 2024/25, 5.4 Mn ha above one year and 20.0 Mn ha above 5 years earlier...

  • Argentine exports of soya meal increased by 3.0 Mn T from last year’s low to an estimated 7.5 Mn T in July/Sept 2024. Exports to the European Union almost trebled last quarter...

  • Record Chinese stocks and the prospective increase in world production have set the stage for a sizeable increase in world fish meal consumption in Oct/Sept 2024/25, reversing the downtrend of a combined 0.3 Mn T registered in the past two seasons....

 

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Wednesday Oct 16

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Prices of vegetable oils are gaining on oilmeals --  a trend which is fundamentally justified and which is likely to continue well in 2025 – as we point out in today’s report…

  • Sun oil has been the price leader upward for edible vegetable oils on the back of significant production losses, a slowdown in crushings and reserved farmer selling. In the FLASH we discuss the outlook for the sunflower oil price premiums…

  • Prices of rapeseed and sunflowerseed have further widened their premiums over soybeans…

  • Prices of coconut oil have eased lately. In the FLASH we discuss the outlook on Philippine production and exports….

 

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Tuesday Oct 15

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Price pressure stemmed from confirmation of a bumper US crop and improving rainfall in South America...

  • Malaysian palm oil exports to countries in Asia and Africa increased sharply in the past 12 months...

  • Strong US import demand kept world exports of tallow sharply above the year-ago level in July/Sept 2024...

  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Imports of rapeseed & canola increased sharply to an estimated 0.34 Mn T in July/Sept 2024, virtually doubling on the year...

 

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Thursday Oct 10

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Arrival of rainfall in South America has been the catalyst for the decline in soybean prices in the futures and cash markets worldwide during the week in review.... A closer analysis, however, points to several trouble spots with still significant soil moisture deficits primarily in central and northern Brazil as well as in parts of Argentina...

  • Argentine imports of soybeans exceeded expectations at about 650-700 Thd T in September, most of which from Paraguay...

  • Malaysia boosted palm oil exports by 1.0 Mn T from a year earlier to 4.77 Mn T in July/Sept 2024, thereby raising its share of world exports to at least 36% from 27% both one and two years earlier....

  • Smaller shipments to China curbed world exports of soybeans to an 8-month low in September.....

  • This year's Ukrianian production shortfall will reduce sunflowerseed disposals in 2024/25. September export data in the FLASH...

 

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