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What To Watch Out For Commodities

Alvin Tai, Soft Commodity Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

13-Aug-20 09:15

What To Watch Out For Commodities

Palm oil inventory fell by 11% month-on-month to 1.7m metric tonnes in July due to higher export demand from India and EU and lower output. We discuss with Alvin Tai, Soft Commodity Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence on the outlook of CPO prices in view of resurgence of Covid-19, possible record high soybean output and the La Nina.

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Produced by: Wong Shou Ning

Presented by: Roshan Kanesan, Lyn Mak, Noelle Lim


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