Why Did Raw Sugar Rally Again And What Does it Mean?
Insight Focus Raw sugar rallying again on enormous volume. Price...
Another Look at Brazil
Insight Focus Worries about CS Brazil’s cane crush have propelle...
BP Fire Starting Gun in Race for SAF Feedstock
Opinion Focus bp will acquire Bunge’s stake in their Brazilian c...
What Brazilian Real Weakness Means for Commodities
Opinion Focus The BRL has been one of the world’s worst-performi...
Focus on Brazil
Insight Focus The Brazilian real (BRL) is projected to weaken against ...
Exploring Sugar’s Downtrend
Insight Focus The sugar market is in a downtrend. This will be driven ...
March Sugar Market Webinar: Making Sense of Recent Prices
Insight Focus Sugar futures are once again trading in a range. Global ...
February Sugar Market Webinar: The EU Sugar Market in 10 Minutes
Insight Focus European sugar production should increase in 2024/25. Th...
A Look At Sugar Market Positioning Ahead of the March Futures Expiries
Insight Focus The sugar market has rebounded 20% from recent lows. Spe...
What Follows The Sugar Market’s December Collapse?
Insight Focus December’s 25% sugar price fall was mild by histor...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 28th November 2023
Insight Focus The index long position in raw sugar has fallen to the l...
Sugar’s Price Strength in Context & What’s Next
Insight Focus The US Dollar and interest rates remain firm. There are ...
Sugar Futures and Market Data: 20th November 2023
Insight Focus The index long position in raw sugar has fallen to the l...
A Closer Look at Sugar Demand Destruction
Insight Focus Sugar prices have been high for all of 2023. We are yet ...
What India’s Crop Problems Mean For Sugar
Insight Focus India faces a sucrose shortfall in 2024. Global sugar pr...
What Happened at the India Sugar & Bio-Energy Conference 2023?
Insight Focus India is booming; so is its cane sector. But India faces...
A Closer Look At Sugar’s Upcoming Supply Problems
Regístrate ahora! Insight Focus India won’t export sugar for ...
Raw Sugar Demand Drops 20% in H1’23
Insight Focus Global refiners slow raw sugar purchases. Raw sugar pric...
Aspartame to be Reclassified by World Health Organization?
Insight Focus Reuters reports the WHO might be about to declare aspart...
Ask the Analyst: At What Price Will Chinese Refiners Buy Raw Sugar?
Insight Focus China is a major raw sugar buyer. Raw sugar futures have...
How Cane Biomass Can Increase Energy Security and Decarbonisation
Insight Focus Biomass is increasingly a source of revenue for cane mil...
What’s Happening to Sugar Demand?
Insight Focus Sugar futures spreads have collapsed. Sugar supply remai...
What Does El Nino Mean for the Sugar Market?
Insight Focus The sugar market has rebounded thanks to fears of El Nin...
From the TXF Global Conference: Ensuring Food Security
Insight Focus Markets have responded to disruption to Black Sea grains...
Ask the Analyst: What Happened During Sugar’s 2009-11 Bull Market?
Insight Focus 12 Year Highs in Raw Sugar Mean We’ve Been Asked to Lo...
How External Markets Are Influencing Sugar
Insight Focus I presented at the S&P Global Sugar Conference in Ge...
March 2023 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus Can raw sugar keep rallying while other commodities retr...
February 2023 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus Sugar consumption growth has slowed since the 2010s. We ...
Ask The Analyst: What Happened At the Dubai Sugar Conference 2023?
Insight Focus Plenty of bullish price sentiment for sugar. Large CS Br...
Do Sugar Taxes Work?
Insight Focus More than 40 countries have imposed sugar taxes in the l...
Czapp Explains: Containers
Welcome to the sixth and final part of Czapp’s course on freight. In...
Czapp Explains: Costs and Price Risk Management
Welcome to the fifth part of Czapp’s course on freight In the fi...
Czapp Explains: Dry Bulk Contracts
Freight Course Overview Welcome to the fourth part of Czapp’s course...
Czapp Explains: Freight Drybulk Vessels, Cargoes & Routes
Freight Course Overview Welcome to the third part of Czapp’s course ...
Czapp Explains: Drybulk Ocean Freight – Who’s Who
Freight Course Overview Welcome to the second instalment of Czapp’s ...
Czapp Explains: Types of Freight
Freight Course Overview Welcome to Czapp’s course on freight. We hop...
January 2023 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus New year, same range for raw and refined sugar. Sugar is...
2023 Outlook for Sugar, Ethanol and Biomass
Insight Focus Globalisation may retreat further in 2023. If so, this i...
December 2022 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus The raw sugar market is staging a Santa rally. We’ve b...
Ask the Analyst: Why Has Pakistan Allowed Sugar Exports?
Insight Focus Pakistan made a record amount of sugar in 2022. Sugar st...
Sugar Market Presentation November 2022
Insight Focus The sugar market is suffering from a decade of underinve...
November 2022 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus Indian defaults have pushed the raw sugar market higher....
Ask the Analyst: Why Has Cuba’s Sugar Industry Declined?
This week newswires carried stories that Cuba wouldn’t export sugar ...
How Realistic is Indonesia’s Sugar Self-Sufficiency Plan?
Insight Focus Indonesia’s President has announced a plan to become s...
Japan’s Sugar Refiners Consolidation & Future Growth
Insight Focus Itochu SUGAR and Nissin Sugar are merging their sugar re...
October 2022 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus Sugar has strengthened since the October futures expirie...
Market Presentation for London Sugar Week 2022
Insight Focus The world’s sugar trade met in-person in London in the...
Ask the Analyst: Was the October Raw Sugar Futures Expiry Bullish?
Insight Focus The October raw sugar futures expired at a premium to th...
September 2022 Sugar Market Video
Insight Focus Sugar markets are still being buffeted by the US Dollar ...
Ask the Analyst: What’s Happening in the Refined Sugar Market?
Insight Focus Refined sugar futures have traded to a 10-year high. Dem...
Inflation and Commodities: The Need for Investment
Inflation is probably transitory and structural. Reduced globalisation...
Ask the Analyst: Why Is Raw Sugar Open Interest Falling?
Insight Focus Raw sugar open interest is the lowest in 5 years. Specul...
October Raw Sugar Expiry: Showing Stress
Insight Focus The October/March raw sugar spread is at a premium. This...
How Does a Re-Export Sugar Refinery Work?
Re-export refiners play a crucial role in the global sugar market as i...
Ask the Analyst: How’s India’s Monsoon Going?
Insight Focus The monsoon is the lifeblood of India’s agriculture. G...
Czapp Explains: Physical Differentials
Sugar and other commodity prices, typically quoted as physical values,...
Should India Abandon Ethanol To Make Food?
Insight Focus High global food prices are helping India export its sto...
Who is Stockpiling Sugar?
Insight Focus COVID, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have put food secu...
Is ‘Fortress Russia’ Self-Sufficient in Sugar?
Insight Focus Russia is normally self-sufficient in sugar. But more th...
Black Sea Sugar Freight Suffers Little War Disruption
Insight Focus Black Sea shipping is being disrupted by the Ukraine war...
Inflation & Commodities: A Contrarian View
Insight Focus Inflation is front-page news. The ‘long commodity’ t...
Sugar & Omicron: The End of the Trend?
The Omicron COVID variant has rattled the sugar market. Sugar’s 18-m...
What the Energy Crisis Means for Inflation & Commodities
The world’s natural gas markets have gone berserk. Many non-energy c...
Indian Ethanol: Triggering a Sugar Bull Market?
India’s government wants a 20% blend of ethanol in gasoline by 2025....
India’s Unknown Climate Heroes
The Indian government wants a 20% blend of ethanol in gasoline by 2025...
Commodities, Inflation and Rising Rates
Commodity price inflation is front-page news, which might mean a corre...
Ask the Analyst: Threats and Opportunities for Sugar
We provide a five-year forecast for the world sugar market every few m...
Ask the Analyst: Genetically Modified Cane and US Raws Supply
Firstly, it’s important to note that the No.16 is very illiquid, so ...
Ask the Analyst: Sugar Consumption and Raws Prices in 2021
The strength in raw sugar started in 2020 as major buyers took advanta...
Ask the Analyst: Sugar Production, COVID, Ethanol Tax
In the early stages of the pandemic, sugar consumption fell in many co...
Ask the Analyst: Brexit, Sugar Consumption, Health
The United Kingdom doesn’t make enough sugar to meet its needs. It ...
October’20 Raw Sugar Expiry: Two Conspiracy Theories
The world is oversupplied with raw sugar. Three receivers have just ta...
Sugar Taxes: Going Up Because of COVID?
Being overweight appears to increase the risk of having severe COVID s...
May PET Update – Stabilisation
242 words / 1 minute reading time Global PET demand remains sluggish d...
India to Subsidise Sugar Exports in 2021?
419 words / 2 minute reading time The WTO has said its investigation i...
The Long Read: Sugar Consumption and Reformulation
3,324 words / 20 minute reading time Many major food and b...
The Long Read: Sugar Taxes & Demand
2,220 words / 11 minute reading time Sugar taxes are spreading a...
Czapp Improvements in August 2019
What’s new? Quite a lot, actually. We’ve continued to enhanc...
Czapp Improvements in August 2019
What’s new? Quite a lot, actually. We’ve continued to enhanc...
Sugar and the Move to Low Sulphur Marine Fuels
Demand for low sulphur marine fuels will rise in the coming months. A ...
The Sugar Market: In Transition?
We expect prices to bottom in H1’19, if they haven’t already. ...