The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) Tuesday closed down -0.11 (-0.63%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed down -2.40 (-0.49%). Sugar prices on Tuesday settled lower and posted 1-1/2 week lows. Over the past week, expectations for a global sugar surplus have weighed on prices....

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) Tuesday closed down -5.40 (-1.44%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) closed down -70 (-1.41%). Coffee prices on Tuesday fell sharply on the outlook for higher coffee production. On Monday, the USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) forecast that Brazil's 2025/26 coffee production will climb...

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) today is down -0.18 (-1.03%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is down -3.10 (-0.63%). Sugar prices today are under pressure and fell to 1-1/2 week lows. Over the past week, expectations for a global sugar surplus have weighed on...

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) today is down -3.80 (-1.01%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) is down -57 (-1.15%). Coffee prices today are under pressure on the outlook for larger global supplies. On Monday, the USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) forecast that Brazil's 2025/26 coffee production will climb...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s study of a man attempting to escape corrupt politics is a tremendous, novelistic study of corruption in high and low places

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) Monday closed down -0.07 (-0.40%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed down -0.60 (-0.12%). Sugar prices on Monday gave up an early advance and closed lower, with NY sugar falling to a 1-week low. Expectations for a global sugar...

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) Monday closed up +9.05 (+2.48%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) closed up +108 (+2.22%). Coffee prices on Monday settled sharply higher due to lighter-than-normal rainfall in Brazil's coffee-growing regions. Somar Meteorologia reported Monday that Brazil's biggest arabica coffee growing area of Minas Gerais,...

The trial of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on charges of planning a coup d'etat will open Monday afternoon as the nation's Supreme Court hears from key witnesses, with the far-right politician potentially facing decades in prison.

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) today is up +0.03 (+0.17%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is up +0.90 (+0.18%). Sugar prices today are slightly higher. Today's decline in the dollar index (DXY00 ) to a 1-week low sparking some strength in sugar. Expectations for...

Indigenous peoples' representatives fear that increased trade with Europe will lead to the agricultural exploitation of their territories