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The week was sleepy form the most part due to the US 4th of July holiday, but still the market dropped a bit further. In fact, on Friday’s close, all the months, except Oct/13, closed at the...

The main global exchanges closed last week in positive territory, with the exception of the Chinese index that fell sharply last Monday and was not able to recover.Statements from some FED members...

The week ended with the expiration of Jul/13 futures. The physical delivery of sugar against the corresponding NY futures contract month ended up being only 144 thousand tons of low quality sugar...

The US central bank kept its interest rate unchanged and stated that their forecast is for the country’s unemployment rate to be at 6.5 % by the end of 2014, with the inflation rate lower than 2...

The global macro scenario has been largely affected by the FED’s decision to slowly end its QE by the end of 2014, slowly drying the market and consequently causing a valuation of the dollar....

The IMF revised downwards their forecast for the 2014 US GDP from 3.0 % to 2.7 % and recommended that the FED continues to prepare themselves to diminish the quantitative easing, although many still...

In a week where more than 1.000.000 futures contracts were traded, the NY sugar market closed Friday higher by 35 points in relation to last week’s closing, hitting 16.78 cents per pound for...

The jobs market in the USA has been stable in general, with the public sector losing a few jobs after the sequestration but helped by hiring coming from the private sector. In the last two sessions of...

The sugar market continues its trajectory downhill. Jul/13 closed the week with an accumulated drop of 12 points (2.65 dollars per ton). The remaining months also closed lower with variations between...

The NY sugar market closed the week lower across the board but with greater pressure on the farther away months. Jul/13 hit the low of 16.52 cents per pound, its lowest value since July of 2010. The...

The GDP of the EU countries fell for the sixth consecutive quarter, with France falling into a recession for the second time in four years. Germany, the main power of the region, only grew 0.1 %,...

The NY sugar market closed the week lower across the board along the price curve, all they way to Mar/16. The drops were between 31 and 61 points, or 7 to 14 dollars per ton, with a greater loss seen...

The unemployment benefits requests in the U.S. lowered this past week to their lowest level in five years, a statistical data that investors have used as a barometer to guess how much the FED will...

The NY sugar market closed the week with a small variation downwards on the first expiration month, Jul/13, quoted at 17.43 cents per pound, 10 points lower than the previous week’s closing. The...

The European Central Bank not only confirmed the expectations of an interest cut to a new record of 0.5 % per year but also surprised the markets signaling that it may begin to tax banks which have...

The NY sugar market closed the week slightly higher by 11 points (2.50 dollars per ton) for Jul/13, quoted at 17.53 cents per pound. May/13 expired and with it we had a record delivery of 28.210 lots,...