date:Nov 11, 2015
this year, fanning speculation about increased Asian appetite for the sweetener.
But in a sign that gives some investors pause, sugar producers and processors are placing the largest bets in two years that prices will fall.
Demand is just not there, said Bruno Lima, head of sugar and ethanol at brokerage INTL FCStone in Brazil, who found raw sugar offered at a deep discount to the futures prices traded in New York during a recent tour of mills in Santos.
Globally, sugar stocks sat at 85.4 mil