* Cocoa down 9 pct, sugar near 2-1/2 bottom * Oil falls as much as 5 pct to below $50 support * Copper, gold down about 2 pct * RJ/CRB broad commods index down nearly...
* Brazilian sugar yields seen lower after heavy rains * Strong start to Ivory Coast main crop weighs on cocoa LONDON, Nov 24 - Sugar prices held steady on Tuesday with the impact of a...
HANOI, Nov 24 - Domestic coffee sales in Vietnam strengthened in the past week as trading houses started stockpiling in anticipation of world prices rising because of a weak dollar and a supply shortfall this...
BANGKOK, Nov 24 - The 2009/10 sugar crushing season has started in Thailand and at least 7 million tonnes is likely to be produced, traders and industry officials said on Tuesday. "A few millers in...
* Rule on export payment still needs adjustments * Rule implementation delayed to July 1, 2010 JAKARTA, Nov 3 - Indonesia has delayed for the third time the introduction of a new trade regulation covering...
* Plants account for 1 pct of company's global output * Closures to affect 875 workers * Company aiming to assess financial impact by Nov. 5 (Adds spokesman comments, closing share prices) TOKYO, Oct 23...
* Rubber prices up 120 percent from a December low * Export limits dropped since start of second half * Concern about impact of drier weather on production JAKARTA, Oct 21 - The world's top...
* Bigger supply response seen in 2010/11 than 2009/10 * Brazil to account for biggest rise in output in 2009/10 LONDON, Oct 14 - World sugar output is forecast to increase to 156.9 million tonnes...
LONDON, Oct 14 - World sugar output is forecast to increase to 156.9 million tonnes in 2009/10 from 150.0 million in 2008/09, German analyst F.O. Licht said in its first forecast for sugar production in...
JAKARTA, Oct 1 - Shipments of rubber from West Sumatra, Indonesia's fifth-largest rubber-producing region, are likely to be delayed after a powerful earthquake damaged roads from plantations to a key port, the chairman of the...