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You may also find some information about prices through the links mentioned below.

SUGAR PRICES

 

Futures exchanges prices


http://www.nybot.com/
Raw sugar futures are traded on the New York Board of Trade. Apart from the current price quotes and charts, the site provides historic data from 1980 to 1998, in an Excel spread sheet which can easily be used for further analysis of price data.

http://www.liffe.com
White sugar futures are traded on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange. This web site provides up-to-date information on sugar futures and options, and general market information.

http://www.bmf.com.br/IndexEnglish.asp
The Commodities & Futures Exchange (BM&F) in Brazil provides information on crystal sugar Futures contract specifications, daily prices and charts.

http://www.online.bg/sce/index.html
The Sofia Commodity Exchange provides information on commodity contracts and a weekly bulletin including prices is available.

http://www.tge.or.jp/english/market_price.html
The Tokyo Grain Exchange (TGE) provides information on raw sugar prices, charts and historical data. Daily and monthly reports are available.

http://www.crbindex.com/conspecs/ccom/
The web site of the Commodity Research Bureau Exchange provides on-line prices and historic data from the main commodity exchanges. This is a subscription service.

 

General information

http://www.sugarinfo.co.uk/
Sugar Online.com is a very good source of market news, prices, and reports on sugar.

http://asiaonemarkets.com/derivatives/lonmetal.shtml
This site provides price quotes of London with a few days of delay.

http://www.alaron.com/quotes.htm
Alaron Trading provides daily commodity prices plus futures prices.

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/crb.html
Bloomberg.com provides up-to-date commodity futures prices and market news.

http://apps2.fao.org/ciwpsystem/ciwp_q-e.htm
The FAO provides weekly, monthly and annual prices, from 1989 to current.

http://www.cirad.fr
In french, the "Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement" (CIRAD) provides datas on price trends on international market and on an annual basis.

http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/pinksheets/
The World Bank provides (in html and acrobat format) commodity price data. We can find annual, quarterly, and monthly averages. The pink sheet for each month contains the data from the previous month.

http://www.usda.gov/oce/waob/oc2000/speeches/clauson.txt
On this web page, you can find an outlook for food prices in 2000.


Country-level prices

http://www.fas.usda.gov/commodity.html
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service provides regular commodity reports, including on prices.

http://www.agriculture.com/markets/
Agriculture Online.com provides information on the agriculture market. Besides, through a link to the USDA, commodity prices are available.

http://www.ams.usda.gov/marketnews.htm
The USDA AMS Market News Service provides daily and weekly reports on U.S. prices (domestic markets, imports, exports), for a wide range of commodities (dairy, feedstuffs, fruit and vegetables, grains, hay, livestock, meat, poultry, tobacco).

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/usda.html
The USDA Economics and Statistics system contains historical domestic prices, including prices received by US farmers.

http://www.indiancommodities.com/
Indian Commodities provides up-to-date daily prices for sugar, for various locations in the country. The daily reports over the previous days of the week are also available. Registration is needed.

http://apps.fao.org/
The FAO statistical basis allows users to obtain country-by-country average annual domestic prices (in national currency) for a number of countries. The information can be found in http://apps.fao.org/, "agriculture", in the "producer prices, crops primary" part. This provides access database in which one can indicate the commodity, countries and years for which one wishes data. These are historical data, using calendar years, and with figures generally referring to periods of 5 years and longer ago.

http://www.commods.reuters.com/
The Reuters web site provides the latest commodity market news, including on prices.