VEGOILS-Palm falls to one-week low, tracking rival oils
* Palm sees second straight day of declines
* Market seen further declining in July - trader
* Palm may test support at 2,441 rgt/T - technicals
(Updates with closing prices)
By Emily Chow
KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures
fell to their lowest in a week on Wednesday, their sharpest
daily fall in a week, tracking related oils on the Chicago Board
of Trade (CBOT) and China's Dalian Commodity Exchange.
The benchmark palm oil contract for September delivery
on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange fell 1
percent to 2,442 ringgit ($569.76) a tonne at the close of
trade, charting a second consecutive day of declines.
It earlier fell to 2,430 ringgit, its lowest since June 14.
Traded volumes stood at 50,738 lots of 25 tonnes.
"Palm fell in light of the plunge in soybean oil overnight,"
said a futures trader in Kuala Lumpur, referring to the sharp
2.4 percent decline in soyoil futures on the CBOT on Tuesday.
Related edible oils on Dalian also weighed on palm prices,
which are seen declining further in July, another trader added.
"After the Eid-al-Fitr holidays, we should see production
picking up, demand slowing down and stocks building up," he
said, referring to the Muslim festival which marks the end of
the fasting month of Ramadan.
Both Eid and Ramadan, which fall in June this year, see
higher uptake of palm oil for cooking purposes, as Muslims break
day-long fasts with communal feasting.
Palm oil exports typically drop after Ramadan, as buyers
stock up on palm oil supplies a month before festivities begin.
Shipments for the June 1-20 period fell 14-16 percent versus
the corresponding period last month, according to data from two
cargo surveyors on Tuesday.
Palm oil may test support at 2,441 ringgit per tonne, a
break below which could cause a further loss to the next support
at 2,421 ringgit, according to Wang Tao, a Reuters market
analyst for commodities and energy technicals.
In other related oils, soybean oil on the Chicago
Board of Trade was flat, while the September soybean oil on the
Dalian Commodity Exchange lost 0.9 percent.
The September palm olein contract fell 2 percent.
Palm oil prices are impacted by the movements of related
edible oils such as soyoil, as they compete for a share in the
global vegetable oils market.
Palm, soy and crude oil prices at 1109 GMT
Contract Month Last Change Low High Volume
MY PALM OIL JUL7 2590 -16.00 2581 2596 712
MY PALM OIL AUG7 2485 -17.00 2464 2490 7352
MY PALM OIL SEP7 2441 -24.00 2430 2450 18486
CHINA PALM SEP7 5208 -106.00 5188 5260 452188
OLEIN
CHINA SOYOIL SEP7 5814 -52.00 5770 5828 392304
CBOT SOY OIL JUL7 32.02 +0.00 31.97 32.17 4918
INDIA PALM OIL JUN7 482.80 +1.00 481.50 484.5 891
INDIA SOYOIL JUL7 625.9 -2.15 625.5 629.85 15390
NYMEX CRUDE AUG7 43.52 +0.01 43.03 43.61 146536
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
($1 = 4.2860 ringgit)
($1 = 64.4950 Indian rupees)
($1 = 6.8249 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by Emily Chow; Editing by Sunil Nair and David
Evans)