
July NY world sugar #11 (SBN23) on Thursday closed down -0.66 (-2.59%), and Aug London white sugar #5 (SWQ23) closed down -11.00 (-1.55%).
Sugar prices Thursday retreated, with NY sugar posting a 1-month low and London sugar posting a 3-week low. Ramped-up Brazil sugar production weighed on sugar prices Thursday after Unica reported Brazil's 2023/24 sugar production through mid-May was up +48% y/y at 4.063 MMT and that the percentage of sugarcane crushed for sugar rose to 45.6% from 38.5% last year.