
Oct NY world sugar #11 (SBV23) on Tuesday closed up +0.84 (+3.25%), and Oct London white sugar #5 (SWV23) closed up +16.70 (+2.29%).
Sugar prices Tuesday rallied sharply, with NY sugar climbing to a 4-1/2 month high and London sugar posting a 12-year high. Sugar prices surged Tuesday after Alvean, the world's largest sugar trader, said it expects a 2023/24 global sugar deficit of -5.4 MMT, the sixth year of deficits, as India may curb sugar exports and Thailand farmers plant more profitable cassava instead of sugarcane.