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The futures sugar market in NY closed the week at 17.28 cents per pound for May/2014. That was a 70-point drop (or 15 dollars per ton) against last week. With no change in market fundamentals, we...

The futures sugar market in NY closed this Friday at 17.98 cents per pound for May 2014, scoring a 112-point high in the week, or 25 dollars per ton. It might look like businesses on the physical...

The futures sugar market in NY closed this week at 16.83 cents per pound, a 45-point drop, or 10 dollars per ton. The drop extended up until May 2015, between 4 and 9 dollars per ton. A slight...

The NY sugar market took everyone by surprise and closed at a steep 66-point low in relation to the previous Friday, hitting 17.28 cents per pound for May/2014. The other months which reflect the...

The NY sugar market closed Friday with May/14 trading at 18.01 cents per pound, higher 35 points or 7.72 dollars per ton. The remaining months showed an almost linear appreciation around 42 points or...

NY closed the week with Mar/14 leaving the screen at 16.47 cents per pound, lower 25 points (or 5.50 dollars per ton) for the week, different from the remaining traded months, which were higher...

After all the bad news already out and properly digested by the market, let us see what the reaction will be now with a more pessimistic picture (in terms of volume of sugar cane) in relation to the...

The announcement from the Indian subsidy of approximately 54 cents per ton, something like 245 cents per pound (valid for Feb and Mar) made the NY futures sugar market see new lows this month, trading...

The NY sugar market closed Friday with Mar/14 quoted at 15.73 cents per pound, higher for the week 4 dollars per ton. The remaining months closed higher between 26 to 38 points, or 6 to 8 dollars per...

The lack of rain in the Center South has not only increased energy prices to historic levels, but has surprised sugar mills as well, turning the yellow light to the sugar market. Without rains, the...

The NY sugar market made new lows this past week. Mar/14 closed Friday at 15.11 cents per pound after having reached 14.97 cents in the beginning of the week, the lowest print since June 10th 2010. In...

The sugar market has begun the year extremely pressured, surprising a large portion of traders and analysts (myself included) who did not believe that prices could breach the low of 15.93 cents per...

New York had another week of low prices. Since the fire at the Santos port last Oct 18th, when the market saw for the first time in 11 months the 20 cents per level being traded, Sugar in NY has gone...

Another week in which we have seen the NY sugar futures market close lower. By the way, it was the 7th consecutive week that it has done so (it began on Oct/25). The last time this occurred was in...

No good news for sugar on the horizon and the market is full of discouraging news. The growth potential for the Thailand crop next year should be significant, so more sugar will be offered which...

The minister of Economy, Mr. Mantega, has postponed until next week the meeting that was to occur this past Friday, of the Petrobras Council, over which he presides, and where it would be discussed...