Sugar Prices Boosted by Fund Short Covering Ahead of Holiday Weekend

Written on 01/16/2026
Rich Asplund

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH26 ) on Friday closed up +0.39 (+2.68%). March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH26 ) closed up +10.20 (+2.44%). Sugar prices settled sharply higher on Friday amid fund short covering ahead of a three-day weekend in the US, with markets closed on Monday for...Packets of white and raw sugar by Tafilah Yusof via Pixabay