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Traders and analysts believe that cocoa, coffee and sugar prices may finally obey logic in 1997 after defying fundamentals in recent years. The cocoa market is expected to conform to market supply and demand pressures. Analysts predict a bullish market in the first half of 1997. With regard to the coffee market, production is forecast to fall by 20% to 25%, which could bolster demand for coffee stock on the market. As for sugar, prices may fall to record lows due to oversupply., Coffee, cocoa and sugar prices have consistently defied the fundamentals in recent years. Traders and analysts say 1997 could be the year softs begin to make sense again. Softs traders' [...]

Sugar prices remain edgy, balancing on an uncertain mix of supply-demand factors, government policies and weather. Coffee markets scramble for sunlight in the gloom and wait for the floor to [...]

Discretion with valor: Letting instincts rule Sands One distinguishing mark of a good discretionary trader is the ability to use the right tools at the right time. Using a combination [...]

When the New York Board of Trade reopened at its new location with 90-minute sessions, sugar didn't lose any volume, though it certainly lost value. March sugar dropped over a [...]

Ample supplies and lackadaisical demand don't project a happy ending to the tale of the softs markets for either bears or bulls. Once upon a time there were three bears: [...]

Their drifting, sector-wide downtrend has kept softs off most traders' radar screens of late. But if you analyze the tendencies of the individual markets, you'll know where to look for [...]

Is sugar |cheap'? Sugar prices are notoriously volatile -- from a high above 65 [cents] per lb. in 1974 to the 7 [cents] area in 1978 to above 45 [cents] [...]

Sugar high When we last looked at sugar, it was wallowing around 6.5cents following the events of Sept. 11. At the time, Liberty Trading Group President James Cordier expected sugar [...]

The prevailing low prices of commodities such as sugar makes it possible to invest into the commodity futures market without much risk. The situation, caused by an overproduction of those products in the world's ailing economies, has resulted in 30-year lows in most commodity markets. This condition can be exploited by commodity traders since the depressed prices will permit them to pay the futures contract at full value, hold it on a quarterly basis or until a profit is realized and then sell., While financial woes in many countries brought lower demand for commodities, it was made worse when these ailing economies increased production of some commodities, thereby creating over-supply problems. With this [...]

Russian sugar imports ahead of an Aug. 1 tariff deadline brought prices off their lows, but a global glut should sour the market again. Judith Ganes, first vice president at [...]

The London Commodity Exchange (LCE), which took its lumps and finally suspended trading its old No. 6 sugar in April, starts screen trading a new, improved raw sugar futures contract [...]