Sugar experienced a much calmer session today with No.11 values holding within a 27 point range. Much of that movement came during the morning as we ranged between 12.46/12.66 during the first 30 minutes before gradually easing to consolidate at the lower end of this range. Spreads meanwhile came under pressure and we initially saw a correction of yesterday’s strength, though the longer the day wore on we increasingly saw the board flatten with the correction eradicated. In the meantime to emphasise the validity yesterday’s late movement we were also seeing further strength in the WP values as May/May pushed ahead towards $88 and Aug/Jul reached $82. An incredibly flat afternoon followed in which prices edged sideways at the lower end of the range, no surprise given the ongoing macro concerns and with the USDBRL weakening back towards 4.70 once again to undo yesterday’s brief recovery. The closing stages saw prices under pressure to make new session lows, concluding weakly at 12.26 basis May’20.

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Jon Whybrow

Jon joined CZ in 1991, working in the Treasury department before moving to join the derivatives team in 1994. Over 30 years Jon has built up significant experience across derivatives markets and products, particularly sugar, and is now Head of Flow derivatives providing market execution services for CZ’s global client base. He is responsible for the market commentaries which are published each day on CZ app.

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