The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

FUNDAMENTALS

* Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower for the first time in five days on Thursday as the contract succumbed to the strong ringgit and concerns that demand in April would be weaker than anticipated.

* Chicago Board of Trade soft wheat futures rose on Thursday while K.C. hard red winter wheat fell to multi-year lows on poor export demand and much-needed rains falling in key U.S. crop areas, traders said.

* Crude oil prices jumped to fresh 2015 peaks on Thursday, turning higher on news that a tribal group made up of former Al Qaeda militants took control of a major southern oil terminal in Yemen.

MARKET NEWS

* Wall Street equities finished modestly lower on Thursday as investors worried about coming

corporate results, while European stocks fell nearly 1 percent under the weight of Greece's worsening financial predicament.

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DATA/EVENTS

> Cargo surveyors Intertek Testing Services and Societe Generale de Surveillance to release data

on Malaysia's April 1-20 palm oil exports on April 20.

Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 0452 GMT

Contract Month Last Change Low High Volume

MY PALM OIL FEB5 2240 -24.00 2230 2254 29

MY PALM OIL MAR5 2228 -19.00 2220 2249 388

MY PALM OIL APR5 2210 -20.00 2202 2222 7986

CHINA PALM OLEIN MAY5 4846 -22.00 4844 4874 180294

CHINA SOYOIL MAY5 5514 -52.00 5508 5562 240078

CBOT SOY OIL MAR5 31.48 -3.50 31.47 31.57 2367

INDIA PALM OIL JAN5 434.90 -3.50 434.00 439.50 488

INDIA SOYOIL FEB5 616.00 -9.00 615.70 624.80 50145

NYMEX CRUDE MAR5 45.06 -0.53 44.35 45.35 25835

Palm oil prices in Malaysian ringgit per tonne

CBOT soy oil in U.S. cents per pound

Dalian soy oil and RBD palm olein in Chinese yuan per tonne

India soy oil in Indian rupee per 10 kg

Crude in U.S. dollars per barrel