Palm oil tumbled below 2,000 ringgit ($633) a metric ton for the first time in more than five years as forecasts for a record U.S. harvest of soybeans used to produce alternative oil threaten to curb demand.
Futures dropped as much as 2.5 percent to 1,989 ringgit on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives,
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