Since 2025, the global natural rubber market has been affected by factors such as macroeconomic uncertainties, geopolitical risks, supply constraints, and climate change, resulting in fluctuating prices. Thai natural rubber (STR20) prices have traded between $1650 and $2160 per ton. Currently, the market is at a critical turning point, urgently needing to develop new trading logic and explore a sustainable dynamic equilibrium path.
Asian stocks extended their gains into a third day on Wednesday, tracking advances on Wall Street as weak US consumer data lifted bets on a Federal Reserve (Fed) interest-rate cut next month.
Malaysia is now the fastest-growing digital economy in Southeast Asia (SEA), with an increase of 19% year-on-year (y-o-y), and on track to reach gross merchandise value (GMV) of US$39 billion (RM161.1 billion) this year.
US producer prices rebounded in September as the cost of energy goods surged and producers passed on some tariffs.
British retailers have reported the sharpest drop in confidence in 17 years and their sales fell again ahead of Wednesday's budget which is likely to include tax increases, according to a survey published on Tuesday.
The US government posted a higher US$284 billion deficit for October in a report delayed and impacted by the recent federal government shutdown and which reflected record tariff revenues offset by a shift of some November benefit payments into last month's data, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.