Last night's USDA report showed planting intentions higher than last year but below market expectations, providing a slight bullish factor. In domestic night trading, palm oil led the gains in the vegetable oil sector, driven by Indonesia's continued advancement of the B50 program and expectations of stronger-than-anticipated inventory drawdowns in Malaysia. However, hopes for a swift end to the Middle East conflict increased, causing crude oil prices to ease slightly, and today's vegetable oil market may follow with a modest pullback.