• Brazil's Ballooning Ethanol Stockpiles Risk Bringing Sugar Back Brazil's Ballooning Ethanol Stockpiles Risk Bringing Sugar Back

    Surging ethanol stockpiles and tumbling prices for the biofuel risk bringing back more sugar production in top grower Brazil. “Prices have been coming down, ethanol stocks are building. Demand is strong but is probably not sufficient to clear the stocks,” said Tom McNeill, a director at Brisbane, Australia-based researcher Green Pool Commodity Specialists. “I think this assumption that everyone has made that maximum ethanol is absolutely locked in could be challenged within the next three months.”

    Jul 9, 2018

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  • SOFTS-Arabica coffee climbs on fund buying, raw sugar slips SOFTS-Arabica coffee climbs on fund buying, raw sugar slips

    July raw sugar settled down 0.06 cent, or 0.5 percent, at 11.69 cents per lb. Focus remained on a global supply glut, with commodity analyst Green Pool forecasting a combined sugar surplus of almost 25 million tonnes for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.

    May 4, 2018

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