(All figures in Canadian dollars unless noted)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 7 (Reuters) - ICE Canada canola
futures fell on Thursday due to commercial hedging and weakness
in soy futures.
* Short-covering underpinned the market, with funds buying
an estimated 3,000 contracts.
* May canola RSv1 lost 70 cents at $482.20 per tonne.
* July canola RSN6 shed $1 to $487 per tonne.
* May-July canola spread traded 6,853 times.
* Chicago May soybeans SK6 slipped as U.S. farmers are
expected to plant some additional soy area. GRA/
* Malaysian May palm oil 1FCPOK6 and NYSE Liffe May
rapeseed COMK6 dipped.
* The Canadian dollar CAD= was trading at $1.3152 to the
greenback, or 76.03 U.S. cents at 12:43 p.m. CDT (1743 GMT),
lower than Wednesday's close at $1.3094 to the greenback, or
76.37 U.S. cents.
* Richardson International, one of Canada's two largest
grain handlers, may raise the price of canola shipments to China
to reflect Beijing's costly higher standard, its chief executive
said on Thursday.