• ISO projected a global sugar deficit of 2.0 million to 2.5 million tonnes in 2015/16, heralding the beginning of a new deficit phase in the world sugar cycle. It also cut its forecast for a projected global sugar surplus in 2014/15 (October/September) to 473,000 tonnes from a previous estimate of 1.3 million tonnes issued in late August.
• Sugar refineries in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the major sugar cane production base in the country, have generally postponed their crushing schedules in the new crushing season due to continuous rainy weather.