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Vegetable oils hold firm on crude rebound and biofuel demand

02-06-2026

Gehrman Kosenkov

Vegetable oil markets steadied this week, caught between a rebound in Brent crude and a long list of conflicting signals. Brent’s August contract fell to a few-week low of $91 a barrel on May 29, then recovered to around $95 after reports that Iran had suspended talks with Washington following Israeli operations in Lebanon. That […]

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