White Sugar #5 May '19 (SWK19)
White Sugar #5 Futures Market News and Commentary
July NY world sugar #11 (SBN26) on Tuesday closed up +0.08 (+0.52%), and Aug London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ26) closed up +5.70 (+1.28%).
Sugar prices extended their two-week-long rally on Tuesday and rose to 1-month highs. Â Strength in the Brazilian real is boosting sugar prices as the real (^USDBRL) rallied to a 2.25-year high against the dollar on Tuesday, discouraging export sales from Brazil's sugar producers. Â
The recent surge in gasoline prices (RBM26) to a 3.75-year high is also bullish for sugar, as higher gasoline prices boost ethanol prices and could persuade the world's sugar mills to divert more cane crushing toward ethanol production rather than sugar, thereby curbing sugar supplies.
Concerns that future global sugar supplies will shrink are supportive of sugar prices. Â Last Friday, Green Pool Commodity Specialists raised their global 2026/27 sugar deficit estimate to -4.30 MMT from -1.66 MMT, citing a shift toward higher ethanol production at the exp... Read more
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