
July NY world sugar #11 (SBN23) on Thursday closed down -0.18 (-0.72%), and Aug London white sugar #5 (SWQ23) closed down -6.00 (-0.86%).
Sugar prices Thursday closed moderately lower, with London sugar falling to a 4-week low. Ramped-up Brazil sugar production is bearish for prices after Unica last Thursday 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. Conab on Apr 26 forecasted that Brazil's 2023/24 sugar output would climb +4.7% y/y to 38.8 MMT, the second most ever, as crops recover from the previous season's adverse weather.