• Mexico - Sugar Prices Bearish Mexico - Sugar Prices Bearish

    Nov 5, 2012

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  • Indonesia Has Potential For Ethanol-Fuel Cars: GM

    Sao Paulo, Brazil. Indonesia might be a potential market for ethanol-fueled cars, following in the footsteps of other sugarcane-producing nations like Brazil that promote the alternative source to fossil fuel, a General Motors executive said. To cover a shortfall Indonesia is set to import about 3 million tons in the 2012-13 season, the newswire reported, citing Green Pool Commodity Specialists, an Australian firm.

    Oct 28, 2012

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  • Sugar Rises as Lower Price May Spur Demand Sugar Rises as Lower Price May Spur Demand

    Vessels scheduled to leave Brazil’s main ports as of yesterday would take 131,700 tons of sugar to India and 125,600 tons to Indonesia, data from Williams Servicos Maritimos Ltda. showed. Indonesia will overtake China as the world’s biggest importer of the raw variety in 2012-13, Tom McNeill, a director at Brisbane, Australia-based Green Pool Commodity Specialists Pty, said in London last week.

    Oct 25, 2012

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  • Sugar week stirs global markets Sugar week stirs global markets

    It was a week in which all eyes were on London Sugar Week - a biennial event which brings together the who's who of world sugar to exchange information about all aspects of production and market outlook. Green Pool Commodities senior analyst Tom McNeill says even amid the cocktail parties and dinners, the mood was decidedly bearish, especially with a potential clash between sugar giants Centre South Brazil and Thailand on the horizon.

    Oct 22, 2012

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  • Indonesia sugar demand eyed, China reopens Indonesia sugar demand eyed, China reopens

    SINGAPORE: Sugar demand from Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest consumer, could lift Thai raw premiums despite the approaching crushing season, while export cuts by main rubber producers could propel Tokyo futures to a new high, dealers said on Monday. "With flat production growth and steadily rising consumption, Indonesia's sugar market is increasingly turning to imports to fill its growing deficit," said Tom McNeill, director of Green Pool, a commodities analyst in Brisbane.

    Oct 8, 2012

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  • Sugar Consumption in Australia - A Statistical Update Sugar Consumption in Australia - A Statistical Update

    This paper clarifies some issues surrounding sugar consumption statistics in Australia. In the past few years, claims that sugar consumption is rising rapidly have been argued vigorously from opposing viewpoints. One major problem for anyone looking closely at the issue – from policy makers, industry, health professionals and others – is that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ceased publishing their “Apparent Consumption of Foodstuffs” data in 1998/99. This publication was the best government-collated data on foodstuffs consumption. Now, regulatory issues regarding food consumption are often debated and decided without independent ABS data to rely on.

    Oct 4, 2012

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