1. Because of the new wage deal, the profit gap of the plantations gets narrow. But this gap will roll on to the buyers by increasing the per kg price. Who will get the burned into there hands when there is so much of demand. ; )
2. Bad weather effected badly for rubber and tea. due to low supply n high demand, to meet the equilibrium level rubber prices need to move up.
This is just a slight idea of the R.auction price comparison.
April end - 420 kg
May mid - 430 kg
May end - 515 kg
June 7th - 525 - 530 kg
As i heard, many of the stock broker firms have advised to get out of the plantation stocks. specially because of the wage deal and that it will fall down badly. I dis-agree with this statement. I feel plantations who got higher % gain from rubber generally will do best in the coming future. and share prices will climb up further n further.
Others opinions and ideas are welcome for this discussion.