date:Apr 22, 2014
ositions in raw sugar, cotton and cocoa traded on ICE. Benchmark prices have risen over 75 percent year-to-date as a record hot January and February in Brazil ignited worries over supplies and reversed expectations of another year of huge supplies.
The front-month May raw sugar contract on ICE rose 0.18 cent, or 1.1 percent, to 16.84 cents per lb on a lack of producer selling and light trade buying. The contract recovered most of Thursday's losses as it traded in a tight range, finding support