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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

This report is updated weekly, for daily information refer to our Busi...

Sugar
  • January 28, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 28th January 2025

It was a far calmer start to trading than seen over previous days as M...

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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

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

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 27th January 2025

  • January 27, 2025

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Sugar

India: Sugar vs Ethanol? 22nd January 2025

  • January 21, 2025

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Sugar
  • May 30, 2022

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 30th May 2022

Insight Focus No.11 prices have fallen slightly, yet No.5 values have ...

Ethanol Sugar
  • May 30, 2022

Bangladesh’s Growing Sugar Demand Adds to Need for Production Investment

Insight Focus Economic development, growing population boosting demand...

Grains Sugar
  • May 30, 2022

News Review: West, Russia Spar over Food Crisis

Insight Focus EU accuses Russia of blackmail over grain exports Time m...

Grains Sugar
  • May 30, 2022

How Have Recent CS Brazil Frosts Affected Sugarcane?

Insight Focus No major damage reported from last week’s frost. Droug...

PET
  • May 30, 2022

PET Raw Material Futures Outlook: Expectations Rise on Easing of Restrictions

Insight Focus PTA futures continue to be driven higher by strong PX de...

Sugar
  • May 27, 2022

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 26th May 2022

The market gapped lower at 19.40 on the opening in reaction to a Brazi...

Food and Ingredients Sugar
  • May 27, 2022

Ask the Analyst: Could Mexico Restrict Sugar Exports?

Insight Focus ‘Food nationalism’, restricting exports to cap domes...

Ethanol Sugar
  • May 27, 2022

Green Shipping Starts to Make Waves

Insight Focus Shipping accounts for 3% of global CO2 emissions but has...

Sugar
  • May 26, 2022

Can India Export Sugar Today? 26th May 2022

Insight Focus There is up to 1m tonnes of export volume left uncontrac...

Ethanol Sugar
  • May 26, 2022

Sugar Production in Center-South Brazil is 33% Lower than 2021

Mills in operation are close to the number seen last year, but crushin...

Grains Sugar
  • May 26, 2022

Farmer Diaries (China) : Smut disease in Sugarcane a Concern

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

Ethanol
  • May 26, 2022

Container Shipping Fuel Surcharges Soar

Insight Focus Fuel surcharge’s share of shipping cost quadruples so ...

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