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Sugar
  • January 15, 2025

GLP-1s, Tariffs Cast Uncertainty Over US Sugar Market

This update is from Sosland Publishing’s Sweetener Report. For m...

Ethanol Sugar
  • January 15, 2025

CS Brazil: Sugar or Ethanol? 15th January 2025

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

Sugar
  • January 14, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 14th January 2025

Despite briefly printing at unchanged the market was soon tracking low...

Carbon
  • January 14, 2025

EU Carbon Rallies as Geopolitics, Weather Drive Demand

Insight Focus EUAs are up 23% since mid-December. Fossil-fuel based po...

Grains
  • January 14, 2025

Chicago Corn Rallies Following Latest WASDE Report

Insight Focus The January WASDE report tightened US corn supplies. Thi...

Ethanol
  • January 14, 2025

India Leads Asian Ethanol Production Boom

Insight Focus The ethanol industry in Asia is expanding. India has tak...

Sugar
Fertiliser
  • January 13, 2025

Urea Prices Rise with Higher Demand, Iranian Supply Issues

Insight Focus Urea prices rose with Iran’s export curbs and increase...

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Food Security
  • January 13, 2025

Urea Prices Rise with Higher Demand, Iranian Supply Issues

Insight Focus Urea prices rose with Iran’s export curbs and increase...

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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Ethanol

CS Brazil: Sugar or Ethanol? 15th January 2025

  • January 15, 2025

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Sugar

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 14th January 2025

  • January 14, 2025

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Sugar

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 17th December 2024

  • December 16, 2024

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Sugar

India: Sugar vs Ethanol? 27th November 2024

  • November 27, 2024

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Sugar
  • April 28, 2019

Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 29th April 2019

No.11 Futures Speculative Positioning (values as of 23rd April 2019) I...

Sugar
  • April 23, 2019

The Sugar Market: In Transition?

We expect prices to bottom in H1’19, if they haven’t already. ...

Sugar
  • April 17, 2019

Peak Stocks Could Move Prices Lower

The market is still rangebound but there is heavy pressure to push it ...

Sugar
  • April 11, 2019

April WASDE: Small Changes in Production

The WASDE has reduced the domestic sugar crops; this is likely to resu...

Ethanol Sugar
  • April 8, 2019

2018/19 – Official Ending Figures

UNICA published the final report of 2018/19 season;  Cane crushed...

Sugar
  • April 8, 2019

French Beets All Planted

French beet planting has ended; rea is a little lower than we had expe...

Sugar
  • April 2, 2019

Touring in Brazil

Rains distribution has been somewhat heterogeneous in CS over the past...

Sugar
  • April 2, 2019

Oversupply Looming

The No.5 refined sugar market has returned about $330 but oversupply l...

Sugar
  • March 31, 2019

Understanding The Pakistani Sugar Sale To China

China has bought 300k tonnes white sugar from Pakistan.  This sug...

Sugar
  • March 25, 2019

Little incentive for 19/20 EU exports

We expect the EU to remain tight through 19/20 with consumption greate...

Sugar
  • March 20, 2019

Months of Boredom Punctuated by Moments of Terror

The market has remained rangebound for much of the past 6 months and l...

Sugar
  • March 8, 2019

Cane availability, are the worries over?

Rains in CS have improved since 2H of February;  Forecast for Mar...

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