
May NY world sugar #11 (SBK26) is down -0.21 (-1.44%), and May London ICE white sugar #5 (SWK26) is down -2.40 (-0.57%).
Sugar prices are trading lower due to today's -11% plunge in crude oil prices. The sell-off in crude oil prices undercuts ethanol prices, encouraging the world's sugar mills to divert cane crushing away from ethanol production and towards sugar, thereby boosting sugar supplies.