WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Feb 14 (Reuters) - ICE (NYSE:ICE) canola futures lost ground on Thursday, pressured by ample supplies and weakness in rival oilseeds.
* Buying was subdued and speculation that canola supplies might be larger than previously expected leading into mid-summer weighed on canola, a trader said.
* March canola RSH9 shed $2.10 to $478.70 per tonne.
* May canola RSK9 lost $2.20 to $487.20 per tonne.
* March-May canola spread traded 8,337 times. Spreading was a major feature of trading.
* Chicago March soybeans SH9 fell on slumping U.S. exports and China cancellations. Paris Matif May rapeseed futures /COMK9 dipped and Malaysian April palm oil futures /1FCPOJ9 rose.
* The Canadian dollar CAD= was trading at $1.3281 to the U.S. dollar, or 75.30 U.S. cents at 1:26 p.m. CST (1926 GMT).
* France on Wednesday raised its estimate of the area sown with winter rapeseed for the 2019 harvest.