Malaysian palm oil stocks hit 19-month low in December as output drops
Malaysia's palm oil stocks fell for a third consecutive month in December to hit their lowest since May 2023, as output dropped due to floods, data from the industry regulator showed on Friday. The drop in inventories in the world's second-largest palm oil producer after Indonesia could support benchmark futures, which have corrected sharply in recent weeks after rising to their highest in about 2-1/2 years in November. Malaysia's palm oil stocks at the end of December fell 6.91% from a month earlier to a 19-month low of 1.71 million metric tons, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) data showed.