Sugar
ICE: Where the benchmark price is determined
Sugar is one of the world’s 10 largest agricultural markets and the world looks to us to price this vital commodity. A large set of commercial market participants ensure highly efficient pricing and continuous liquidity.
Trading sugar
Sugar futures were introduced on ICE in 1982, and the Sugar No. 11 and White Sugar contracts serve as the global benchmark for sugar prices.
Futures and options are used by the global sugar industry to price and hedge transactions. In addition, sugar’s role in ethanol production increasingly makes it both an energy commodity and a food commodity, and no exchange is positioned better to take advantage of this dual role than ICE.
Finally, the deep and liquid nature of the sugar market has made it a favorite of commodity trading participants.
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