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Sugar Prices Finish Lower as the Global Sugar Supply Outlook Improves

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) Thursday closed down -0.25 (-1.27%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH25 ) closed down -2.40 (-0.47%). Sugar prices Thursday extended this week's sharp losses, with NY sugar posting a 3-month low and London sugar posting a 4-month low. Sugar came under...

Barchart · Dec 19, 2024

Cocoa Prices Retreat as Dollar Strength Sparks Long Liquidation

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25 ) Thursday closed down -458 (-3.65%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25 ) closed down -261 (-2.63%). Cocoa prices fell sharply Thursday after a rally in the dollar index (DXY00) to a 2-year high spurred long liquidation in cocoa futures. Cocoa prices have rallied...

Barchart · Dec 19, 2024

Sugar Prices Slide on Possible Resumption of India Sugar Exports

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) today is down -0.15 (-0.76%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH25 ) is down -0.10 (-0.02%). Sugar prices today extended this week's sharp losses, with NY sugar posting a 3-month low and London sugar posting a 4-month low. Sugar came under...

Barchart · Dec 19, 2024

Elon Musk considers funding Nigel Farage's populist party, a move that could shake up UK politics

British politician Nigel Farage says talks are underway about Elon Musk making a hefty donation to Farage’s party Reform U.K. The Times of London reported it could be as much as 100 million pounds ($127 million), which would be the largest political donation in U.K. history

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024

London tourists warned of rogue traders using boxing machines and photo booths

Westminster’s deputy leader hopes the prosecutions ‘will serve as a warning to rogue traders trying to rip people off’

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024

'London streets are no longer safe': influencers panic as Birkins join Rolex and Canada Goose as crime targets

When a £10,000 Birkin was nicked from an Oxford Street changing room, fear spread throughout the Hermès-bag-wearing community

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2024

Cost of Premiership rugby’s failed three underlined with £30m loans yet to be recovered

Wasps, Worcester and London Irish went out of business in 2022/23

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024

OPINION - I'm sorry, but this is why I have no sympathy for the woman whose £10,000 handbag was stolen in London

It did not, I have to say, take long for my sympathy for the woman who had her designer handbag stolen from a changing room in Oxford Street to evaporate into thin air. And that was when I read the headline to the story: “The moment an influencer had her…

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2024

Justine Simons: 'I hope I’ve been able to reposition culture as the lifeblood of London'

The deputy mayor for culture on how London’s arts scene has transformed over the past two decades, competing with Paris, and the capital’s biggest cultural project since the Great Exhibition

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2024

London markets plunge after Fed decision hammers Wall Street

The FTSE 100 was down 112p, or 1.37%, at 8,087.11, taking the index to its lowest for almost a month.

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2024