The price of palm oil rallied strongly in early 2016 on a combination of smaller harvests, rising soybean (and soy oil) prices and a rally in crude oil prices. These factors more than offset the negative impact of lacklustre demand. However, we forecast that prices will fall in the second half of this year and into 2017 as production picks up and the rallies in the prices of competing commodities also ease back.
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