War on Sugar Turns Years of Growth Into Market Tipping Point
- Bloomberg Commodity Index’s worst performer faces future risks
- Sugar threatened by demands for healthy products, cheap syrups
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It’s not this year’s price crash that haunts the $150 billion sugar industry. It’s the fear of worse to come.
Raw sugar’s 16 percent drop ranks it bottom of the 22 raw materials on the Bloomberg Commodity Index. Shocks to demand in top consumer India and prospects of more European supply are helping shift the market to a surplus, hurting prices. Yet beyond such market dampeners, hang darker clouds.