NY raw sugar and London white sugar edge higher in Friday trade
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Sugar closed modestly higher as a softer USD and short-covering offset pressure from a sharp WTI drop that could reduce ethanol diversion and lift sugar supply. The larger driver is tightening forward fundamentals: the US Climate Prediction Center flags a potentially very strong El Niño, threatening rainfall across Brazil, India, and Thailand, while multiple agencies have cut 2026/27 output and shifted the global balance toward a deficit.
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Sugar prices ended Friday modestly higher, with October NY world sugar #11 rising +0.08 (+0.54%) and October London ICE white sugar #5 up +1.00 (0.22%). A slightly weaker dollar and pre-weekend short covering helped lift prices after the market hit a one-week low earlier in the session. Declines in crude oil weighed on ethanol values, potentially encouraging mills to divert less cane toward ethanol and increasing sugar supply. Markets also monitored monsoon developments in India and the risk that an El Niño could curb rainfall in major producing regions.
