Rubber falls

Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures ended down on Thursday after touching a two-week high a day earlier, as the market came under pressure from weak Shanghai futures. The Tokyo Commodity Exchange rubber contract for May delivery finished 1.2 yen lower at 198.3 yen ($1.76) per kg. The most-active rubber contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange for May delivery fell 225 yuan to finish at 13,915 yuan ($2,105) per tonne. The front-month rubber contract on Singapore's SICOM exchange for December delivery last traded unchanged at 142 US cents per kg.