date:May 13, 2016
ICE raw sugar rallied nearly 5 percent and neared a 1-1/2-year high on Wednesday as speculators bought on expectations that the Senate in top grower Brazil will suspend President Dilma Rousseff, supporting the countrys currency.
Brazil is also the biggest producer of arabica coffee, but this market largely shrugged off the countrys political turmoil and the slightly higher real, and inched up to a three-week high. Robusta coffee reached a six-month top.
Cocoa prices fell, bucking the days tren