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

FUNDAMENTALS

* Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower on Thursday on the prospect of another month of strong

crude palm production in the world's second-largest grower, although hopes for firm export demand provided some support.

* U.S. soybean futures snapped two sessions of declines and climbed to the highest in 2-1/2

weeks on concerns that labor strikes in South America could limit supplies to ports during the

peak export season in Brazil and Argentina.

* Crude oil prices settled up 3 percent on Thursday, hitting 2015 highs, while U.S. gasoline

reached 5-month peaks after Saudi Arabia and its allies maintained a bombing blitz in Yemen that

heightened concerns about the security of Middle East oil supplies.

MARKET NEWS

* U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, with the Nasdaq index hitting a record closing high, as

corporate earnings and a rise in energy shares overshadowed soft U.S. economic data, while oil

prices climbed to the highest levels of the year.

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> Argentina increases 2014/15 soy crop forecast to 59 mln tonnes

DATA/EVENTS

> Cargo surveyors Intertek Testing Services to release data on Malaysia's April 1-25 palm oil

exports on April 25. Societe Generale de Surveillance to release data for the same period on

April 27.

Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 0027 GMT

Contract Month Last Change Low High Volume

MY PALM OIL MAY5 0 +0.00 0 0 0

MY PALM OIL JUN5 0 +0.00 0 0 0

MY PALM OIL JUL5 0 +0.00 0 0 0

CHINA PALM OLEIN SEP5 4920 +22.00 4866 4928 490108

CHINA SOYOIL SEP5 5730 +60.00 5678 5742 529426

CBOT SOY OIL JUL5 32.34 +3.20 32.22 32.38 615

INDIA PALM OIL APR5 442.80 +3.20 437.20 443.90 1271

INDIA SOYOIL JUN5 594.00 +9.40 583.80 594.60 69945

NYMEX CRUDE JUN5 57.50 -0.24 57.40 57.64 2034

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