The Rubber Board and the stakeholder associations in rubber and related sectors are jointly organizing India Rubber Meet 2018 (IRM 2018), the fourth edition in the series in Kochi on 30 and 31 August 2018.

With neighbouring nations supplying the internal rubber market regularly again, some industry insiders in Cambodia say the pledge made by Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia in December to withhold exports has done little to alleviate rubber price woes in the kingdom.

TOKYO (April 12): Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures ended higher on Thursday buoyed by firm oil prices, however, gains were curbed by sluggish Shanghai futures and on concerns over high inventories.

The Economic Times reports Indian natural rubber production is likely to be 1 lakh metric tons short of the Rubber Board projected figure of 8 lakh metric tons for 2017-18, even as the consumption is set to reach a new peak. For 11 months to February 2018, the production clocked 6.49 lakh metric tons, just 2 percent higher from a year earlier.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's natural rubber production increased by 14.9% in February 2018 to 63,246 tonnes from 55,039 tonnes in the previous month, according to Department of Statistics.

Gold prices eased off multi-week highs on Thursday as minutes from the Federal Reserves’s last policy meeting raised expectations for a faster pace of U.S. rate hikes.