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With the dollar hitting 3.2600 reals last Friday, it is only natural that the futures sugar market reacted with a huge devaluation. It makes sense. As we have relentlessly said here that what matters...

The sugar market in NY closed the week last week at a fall pressured by a weaker Brazilian real. Take a look at the level July/October and October/March spreads traded at. They closed at 57 and 102...

The sugar market in NY closed at a sharp fall in the week with March/2015 expiring at 13.93 cents per pound, a 46-point negative variation in the week equivalent to over 10 dollars per ton. The...

The sugar market in NY closed the week at a 0.43-dollar-per pound low for 2015, that is, almost 10 dollars per ton, in line with the announcement made by the Indian government on the extension of the...

The measures adopted by the Brazilian government, such as the change in the anhydrous blend in gas from 25% to 27%, along with the growth potential of ethanol consumption in the state of Minas Gerais,...

The sugar market in NY closed the week slightly down for March/2015 which closed at 14.95 cents per pound, only 3 points below last week’s closing. The other months closed between 7 and 21...

In a recent past, the conflicts which take place in the Middle East would be more than enough to trigger an oil supply shock and prices would rise to the point of putting in check the growth of the...

There were some businesses on the sugar physical market for exports at the end of this harvest and also a good volume for next year’s harvest. It wasn’t anything special – about...

The Sugar market is still pressured by the devaluation of the real against the dollar and also by the Oil accumulating falls on the foreign market. The Gas price increase by only 3% announced by...

The price of the oil barrel accumulated a 12% fall on the foreign market only this October (the yearly accumulated value is at an 18.5% loss) allowing the government to hold off on an eventual gas...

After the Sugar delivery on expiry of the NY contract for October/2014 this week at about 10,000 contracts – a lot lower than what the market had anticipated during the weeks before maturity...

The futures Sugar market in NY closed the week with October/2014, which expires next Tuesday, up almost 200 points, 42 dollars per ton to be more accurate. This has been the largest weekly variation...

The Sugar market in NY closed Friday after another week with prices reaching new lows since 2010. October/2014 closed at 13.50 cents per pound with a 28-point low (US$6.17/ton) against the previous...

The futures sugar market in NY had another one of those weeks the producers would certainly like to get out of their heads. October/2014, whose expiry date is this late September, closed Friday at...

The futures Sugar market in NY closed the week at a low for October/2014 again, which closed Friday quoted at 15 cents per pound, a level not even the most pessimistic trader could have foreseen...

The futures Sugar market in NY closed the week at a slight low for October/2014, which closed Friday at a 15-point drop against the previous week. March/2015 had a small negative variation of 7 points...