US MIDDAY: sugar sags

01 Nov, 2007

Raw sugar futures tumbled in early trade Wednesday on speculative sales, and brokers said the market may post more losses if it stays below the psychological 10-cent level. "The specs leaned on it hard, but there seems to be pretty good support at 10. If we close below 10, we could go to 9.90 or lower," a floor dealer said, referring to the March contract.
ICE Futures electronic March sugar fell 0.10 cent to 9.97 cents per lb at 9:19 am EDT (1319 GMT), moving from 9.93 to 10.03 cents. Open-outcry volume Tuesday was 7,452 lots and screen trade reached 46,526 contracts.

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