Benchmark TOCOM rubber futures stood little changed on Monday, in line with the Shanghai futures overnight.
FUNDAMENTALS
* The Tokyo Commodity Exchange rubber contract for April delivery edged up 0.3 yen to 200.3 yen ($1.75) per kg by 0050 GMT.
* Japanese markets were closed on Friday for a national holiday.
* Key Shanghai futures ended overnight trading up 0.2 percent.
* Floods inundated swathes of central and southern Vietnam on Sunday in the wake of a typhoon that left at least 27 dead just days before the region is due to host the APEC summit of Asia-Pacific leaders.
* The government said on Saturday more than 40,000 hectares of crops had been damaged, including sugar cane, rice fields and rubber plantations.
* Malaysia's rubber products exports in September rose 19.4 percent from a year ago to 2.1 billion ringgit ($495 million), government data showed.
* Rubber inventories in warehouses monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose 2.1 percent from the previous week, the exchange said on Friday.
MARKET NEWS
* Oil prices rose on Friday, with U.S. crude touching a two-year high, strengthening after U.S. rig data suggested drilling in the United States would throttle back.
* The U.S. dollar was quoted around 114.21 yen, a little stronger than it was before the Japanese holiday.
* Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock average was up 0.3 percent.
* Zinc prices slipped on Friday, as Chinese inventories rose, while copper pulled back after a rally spurred by prospects for surging demand from electric vehicles.
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