Market and product

The Malaysian rubber market is expected to be volatile next week amid the uncertain global sentiment, a dealer said.

"It will be difficult to predict the trend next week as prices would most probably be influenced by the supply situation and the futures market," she dealer said.

Physical rubber prices is also likely to be influenced by the Tokyo Commodity Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange.

On a week-to-week basis, the Malaysian Rubber Board's official physical noon price for tyre-grade SMR 20 fell 10.5 sen to 990 sen per kg from last Friday's 1,000.5 sen.