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Biodiesel (FAME) and Coconut oil

Their prices have moved together.

Biodiesel (FAME) (chemical) and Coconut oil (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: fuel use

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

The Philippines blends coconut oil into diesel, and fuel demand for all vegetable oils lifts their prices together. The biodiesel proxy is the soybean oil price; monthly moves correlate at 0.47 and yearly moves at 0.66.

  • 0.47 monthly change correlation
  • 0.66 12-month change correlation
  • 0.91 fitted elasticity

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