Ask the Analyst: What Could Bring the Specs Back into the Market?
The current situation for speculation is probably the least positive t...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 24th January 2022
The No.11 has recovered after falling below 18 c/lb. The low prices of...
Ask the Analyst: Brazil’s Sugar and Ethanol Mix in 2022/23
Brazil’s decision of whether to maximise sugar or ethanol production...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 17th January 2022
The net spec position fell to its lowest level since 2020 last week. T...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 11th January 2021
The sugar futures markets remain under pressure. Speculator sentiment ...
Ask the Analyst: Thai Sugar Exports in 2021/22
In this week’s Ask the Analyst, we share our estimates for Thai suga...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 20th December 2021
The sugar futures markets have taken another hit due to COVID fears. W...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 13th December 2021
The sugar futures markets have recovered after prices came under press...
Ask the Analyst: Indian Sugar Exports in 2021/22
How Much Sugar Will India Export in 2021/22? After good year of weathe...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 6th December 2021
New York No.11 (Raw Sugar)
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 30th November 2021
New COVID concerns have hit the market, causing a sharp drop in the No...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 22nd November 2021
The No.11 and No.5 barely moved last week. The specs appear tentativel...
Ask the Analyst: Bulk Shipping Costs and Sugar
Bulk freight rates almost quadrupled during the first three quarters o...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 16th November 2021
There’s been little movement in the No.11 and No.5 across the past w...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 8th November 2021
The No.11 traded positively in the week recently captured by the CFTC ...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 1st November 2021
Consumers returned to the market after the No.11 dropped below 19 c/lb...
Ask the Analyst: Why Has Speculator Sentiment Changed in Raws?
According to CFTC data, the net speculative position fell by 51k lots ...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 25th October 2021
The week up to the 19th October saw speculators reduce their net posit...
Ask the Analyst: Is Raw Sugar Demand Improving?
Raw sugar consumers haven’t bought enough for 2022 yet. Poor physica...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 18th October 2021
Order flow remains weak in the No.11, with limited buying interest fro...
Ask the Analyst: Is White Sugar Demand Recovering?
Low prices in 2020 incentivised stockpiling of refined sugar. This was...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 11th October 2021
The week up to the 4th October was quiet one for order flow in the No....
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 4th October 2021
The run up to the No.11 V expiry was quiet for speculators, with the n...
NEW! Sugar Futures and Market Data: 28th September 2021
The speculative net long position in raw sugar now stands at +204k. Th...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 20th September 2021
Raw sugar saw its largest fall in the net spec position in almost thre...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 6th September 2021
The net spec position in the Raw Sugar market decreased by 12k lots â€...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 31st August 2021
After the recent rally in the No.11 drove prices above 20c/lb, the wee...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 23rd August 2021
The No.11 broke above 20 c/lb in the week up to the 17th August, but t...
Ask the Analyst: Sugar’s Rally and Brazil’s Frost
CS Brazil is preparing for its worst cane harvest in nine years, after...
Why Are Sugar Specs Bucking the Trend in Soft Commodities?
Agricultural commodities rallied in H1’21. Most prices peaked in May...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 16th August 2021
Specs bought raw sugar aggressively in the week up to the 10th of Augu...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 9th August 2021
The net Spec long position in Raw Sugar grew by a modest 1,254 lots in...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 2nd August 2021
The net spec long position in raw sugar increased by 27.8k lots to 305...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 26th July 2021
The net spec long in raw sugar grew by a modest 4.3k in the week up to...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 19th July 2021
The net spec position in raw sugar fell by a sizeable 29k lots in the ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 5th July 2021
The Net Spec Long Position in raw sugar increased for the first time i...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 28th June 2021
Click Here The net spec position in raw sugar continued to fall for th...
Russia Creates Government Sugar Buffer Stocks
Opinion Focus Russia has attempted to import 350k tonnes of duty-free ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 14th June 2021
Click Here to View After a considerable rise in the previous wee...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 7th June 2021
Click Here to View Speculators returned to the raws market in th...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 1st June 2021
Click Here to View The net spec position in raw sugar fell for t...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 24th May 2021
Click Here to View The net spec position in raw sugar fell by a ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 17th May 2021
Click Here to View Specs continued their bullish activity in raw...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 10th May 2021
The net spec position in raw sugar fell by 8.4k lots in the week up to...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 4th May 2021
In the week up to the 27th April, the net spec position in raw sugar g...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 26th April 2021
Speculators bought the raw sugar market very aggressively in the week ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 19th April 2021
In the past few weeks, speculators have been selling the sugar market,...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 12th April 2021
The net spec position in raw sugar continued to fall in the week up to...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 6th April 2021
Speculators continued to cut their long positions in Raw sugar in the ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 29th March 2021
The net spec long position in raw sugar continued to fall, with a shar...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 22nd March 2021
In raw sugar, the net spec position fell for the third consecutive wee...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 15th March 2021
The net spec position fell by 19k lots in the week up to the 9th March...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 8th March 2021
In raw sugar, the net speculative position reduced by 17k lots followi...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 1st March 2021
The net spec position in Raw Sugar reversed its recent downward trend ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 22nd February 2021
The net spec position grew by a modest 2.8k lots in the week up to the...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 15th February 2021
In raw sugar, commercial consumers continued to buy aggressively in th...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 8th February 2021
In raw sugar, the net spec long fell slightly in the week up to the 2n...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 1st February 2021
In raw sugar, the net spec long position fell by 16k lots as prices fe...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 25th January 2021
The net spec long position grew again slightly in the week up to the 1...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 18th January 2021
In the week up to the 12th January, the net spec position in raw sugar...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 11th January 2021
Spec buying drove the raw sugar price above 16c last week for the firs...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 5th January 2020
The net spec position in raw sugar again surpassed 200k lots after fal...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 29th December 2020
It was a quiet week for market participants in raw sugar, but the net ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update
In raw sugar the net spec position fell for a 4th straight week, dropp...
Corn Futures Positioning and CFTC Update
Corn Futures Speculative Positioning Corn Futures Commerical Pos...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 14th December 2020
The net spec position in raw sugar fell for a third consecutive week a...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 7th December 2020
The net spec position in raw sugar fell by 30k lots in the week up to ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 1st December 2020
The net spec position fell by 7k lots in the week up to the 24th of No...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 23rd November 2020
Specs came back into the No.11 market last week, buying almost 15k lot...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 17th November 2020
In the week of data collection (3rd to the 10th of November), the raw ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 2nd November 2020
Specs have continued to buy in the raw sugar market, increasing their ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 26th October 2020
The net spec position in raw sugar has continued to grow, but at a slo...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 19th October 2020
Specs continued to buy the raw sugar market in the week up to the 13th...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 12th October 2020
Strong spec buying in raw sugar continued in the week up to the 6th of...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 5th October 2020
Last week saw a second consecutive week of good spec buying, with almo...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 14th September 2020
The net spec position in raw sugar fell last week for the first time s...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 7th September 2020
Before the CFTC data collection, it was a quiet week in the No.11 mark...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 24th August 2020
A week of good spec buying to open new longs in raw sugar was matched ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 17th August 2020
Another positive week for raw sugar; index traders have cut 30k short ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 10th August 2020
Speculators have finally bought the raw sugar market in size; purchasi...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 3rd August 2020
Speculators remain on the sidelines in sugar, even though last Monday ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 27th July 2020
After falling last week, the raw sugar net spec long grew again, but o...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 20th July 2020
Spec involvement in raw sugar grew significantly for the first time si...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 13th July 2020
After two slow weeks for spec activity, the No.11 net spec long grew b...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 7th July 2020
It was another quiet week in raw sugar for specs, whose gross long and...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 29th June 2020
In raw sugar the net spec long continued its small but steady growth. ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 22nd June 2020
In Raw sugar the net spec long continued to grow, now sitting at almos...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 15th June 2020
In Raw sugar specs continued to build their net long position, extendi...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 8th June 2020
Specs had a quiet week in Raw Sugar as price hovered around 11c, with ...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 1st June 2020
Specs continue to appear bullish in raw sugar, now holding a modest ne...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 26th May 2020
Raw sugar producers have been hedging/selling into the recent strength...
Genetically Modified Cane: What Does it Mean for Brazil?
915 words / 4.5 minute reading time With the Brazilian crush now under...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 18th May 2020
In raw sugar the net spec short position continued to decrease, intere...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 11th May 2020
For the first time since Coronavirus uncertainty hit markets, the spec...
NEW! Genetically Modified Cane: Brazil Leads the Way
1,536 words / 7.5 minute reading time This season marks the first time...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 4th May 2020
Speculators were 82k lots net short of the raw sugar market as of last...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 27th April 2020
Speculators are building a fresh short position in the raw sugar marke...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 20th April 2020
Specs appear to be regaining some confidence in their positioning in S...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 14th April 2020
After Coronavirus driven uncertainty in sugar markets lead to rapid sp...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 6th April 2020
Specs continue to lack direction in sugar – with the net spec positi...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 30th March 2020
Speculators have continued their move towards net spec neutrality as u...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 23rd March 2020
Specs have continued their trend of reducing the size of their net lon...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 16th March 2020
Specs have continued their move towards a net neutral position in suga...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 9th March 2020
Uncertainty caused by Coronavirus has seen speculators reduce their po...
Raw Sugar Order Flow Risk
322 words / 1.5 minute reading time The No.11 is vulnerable to further...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 2nd March 2020
The net spec position of both No. 11 and No. 5 continued to plateau; t...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 24th February 2020
The net spec position in both No.11 and No. 5 has plateaued; in the No...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 17th February 2020
Another small increase in the size of the net long position for both N...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 10th February 2020
Growth stalls in spec net long position for both No. 11 and No. 5 mark...
Sugar Futures Positioning and CFTC Update 3rd February 2020
In No. 11 and No.5 the net long position of specs continues to build, ...