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Sugar
  • February 3, 2025

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 3rd February 2025

Insight Focus Raw sugar futures continued trading above 19c/lb over th...

Sugar
  • January 31, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 31st January 2025

Starting the day at unchanged there was very little interest from eith...

Sugar
  • January 29, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 29th January 2025

The market was back in to attack mode as we opened with the early stag...

Food and Ingredients
  • January 29, 2025

Mercosur Advances in Free Trade Negotiations with the UAE

Insight Focus Negotiation of the trade deal began last year and has be...

Sugar
  • January 29, 2025

Thai Cane Crush Downgrade

Insight Focus We’ve downgraded our Thai cane crush forecast from 105...

Ethanol Sugar
  • January 29, 2025

CS Brazil: Sugar or Ethanol? 28th January 2025

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Food Security
  • January 27, 2025

Urea Continues Rise Ahead of India Tender Pricing

Insight Focus Urea prices continue to rise ahead of price discovery on...

Logistics Disruptions
  • January 8, 2025

5 Factors that Shaped Shipping in 2024… and Beyond

Insight Focus The container shipping industry experienced significant ...

Consumption
  • January 6, 2025

How the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement Will Impact Brazil

Insight Focus In early December, Mercosur and the EU signed an importa...

Sustainability
  • January 6, 2025

What is the Biggest PET Legislation to Look Out For in 2025?

Insight Focus Key PET and packaging legislations show no sign of slowi...

Inflation
  • December 19, 2024

Trump Proposes Tariffs on Mexican Sugar Imports

Insight Focus President-elect Trump has proposed tariffs on Mexican go...

Climate Control
  • November 12, 2024

UN Climate Summit Faces Trump Threat, Finance Questions

Insight Focus Nations are set to discuss raising “trillions” to fu...

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Sugar

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 3rd February 2025

  • February 3, 2025

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Sugar

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 31st January 2025

  • January 31, 2025

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Ethanol

CS Brazil: Sugar or Ethanol? 28th January 2025

  • January 29, 2025

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Sugar

India: Sugar vs Ethanol? 22nd January 2025

  • January 21, 2025

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Grains
  • June 14, 2022

Brazilian Farmers’ 2nd Corn Crop Selling Slowest Since 2014

Insight Focus Record high production on 10% increase in planted area d...

Food and Ingredients
  • June 14, 2022

Dairy Online: US Butter Prices Rise on Demand Growth

Insight Focus New Zealand and US skim milk powder prices fall, Europe...

Grains
  • June 14, 2022

Farmer Diaries (UK): Preparing for Rye Harvest Amid Jubilee Celebrations

Insight Focus In this series, we’re following farmers around the wor...

Sugar
  • June 14, 2022

Sugar Statshot: Small Sugar Deficit in 2022/23

Insight Focus Sugar consumption will exceed production in 2022/23. Sug...

Ethanol Grains
  • June 13, 2022

Sugarcane Crush Better than expected in CS Brazil

Opinion Focus Crushing advanced on the H2 May with 44mt of cane proces...

Sugar
  • June 13, 2022

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 13th June 2022

Insight Focus No.11 prices have fallen slightly, while No.5 price cont...

Ethanol Sugar
  • June 13, 2022

New Brazil Tax Proposals Could Be Bearish for Ethanol, Sugar

Brazilian govt proposes more tax cuts to lower fuel prices Proposed ch...

Grains
  • June 13, 2022

News Review: Ukrainian Grain Exports Dominate Headlines

Insight Focus No deal achieved in Russian-Turkish talks on opening Bla...

PET
  • June 13, 2022

PET Raw Material Futures Outlook: PTA, PET Producers Struggle to Pass on Feedstock Price Rises

Insight Focus PTA futures hit record highs driven by surging crude oil...

Sugar
  • June 10, 2022

Ask the Analyst: Why is the Sugar White Premium so High?

Insight Focus The sugar white premium had recently broken above 160USD...

Sugar
  • June 9, 2022

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 9th June 2022

Having consolidated the 19c area yesterday the market started very muc...

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