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Fertiliser
  • January 27, 2025

Urea Continues Rise Ahead of India Tender Pricing

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

PET
  • January 27, 2025

PET Resin Futures Retreat on Feedstock Cost, CNY Trading Slowdown

Insight Focus PET and Raw Material Futures posted weekly losses as cru...

Sugar
  • January 24, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 24th January 2025

Initial trades down to 18.63 were very brief as the market quickly sur...

Sugar
  • January 24, 2025

China Imports Record Liquid Sugar and Premix in 2024

Insight Focus China imported 2 million tonnes of world market white su...

Sugar
  • January 23, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 23rd January 2024

March’25 saw another solid start to a day with early trading see...

Energy
  • January 23, 2025

Why Blending Sustainable Aviation Fuel Requires Precision

Insight Focus Blending SAF involves adding sustainable components (SBC...

Sugar
  • January 22, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 22nd January 2025

It was a far more subdued start to today’s session as the dust s...

Sugar

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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 24th January 2025

  • January 24, 2025

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Ethanol

CS Brazil: Sugar or Ethanol? 22nd January 2025

  • January 22, 2025

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Sugar

India: Sugar vs Ethanol? 22nd January 2025

  • January 21, 2025

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Sugar

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 21st January 2025

  • January 21, 2025

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Sugar
  • August 5, 2021

Will China’s COVID Spike Hit Sugar Consumption?

We’d hoped Chinese sugar consumption would recover alongside its vac...

Sugar
  • August 4, 2021

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 4th August 2021

Sugar #11 Oct’21 Some early buying for Oct’21 looked to set a ...

Ethanol Sugar
  • August 4, 2021

Brazil: Raízen and the Biggest IPO of the Year

 Mains Points  Raízen has just held the largest IPO of 2021...

Sugar
  • August 4, 2021

US Beet Production Hit by Drought

The USDA’s reduced its beet production forecast for the US. The July...

Sugar
  • August 4, 2021

Costly Freight Weakens Refiners’ Profitability

Toll (re-export) sugar refinery profitability is under pressure. High ...

Sugar
  • August 3, 2021

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 3rd August 2021

Sugar #11 Oct’21 The day began with lower values, more so due to...

Energy
  • August 3, 2021

Why Do Electricity Prices Tend to Be High in Brazil?

Main points  The calculation of energy price in Brazil is directl...

Grains
  • August 3, 2021

Corn: Another Frosty Week in Brazil

It was frosty again in Brazil last week. Corn rallied as a result. Agr...

Sugar
  • August 2, 2021

Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 2nd August 2021

The net spec long position in raw sugar increased by 27.8k lots to 305...

  • August 2, 2021

Freight Rates in H2’21 and Beyond

The freight markets have reached a 13-year high in 2021. Here, we disc...

Sugar
  • August 2, 2021

New UK Sugar Taxes: Will They Really Work?

The UK may implement a new tax on sugar and salt. It’s come under fi...

Sugar
  • August 2, 2021

Asian Sugar Consumption Hit by COVID and Slow Population Growth

Asia’s population growth rate has been declining since 1987. COVID h...

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