• Raw sugar futures on ICE eased on Friday, weighed down by forecasts for rain in Brazil.
• ICE March raw sugar futures closed down 0.16 cent, or 1.1 percent, at 14.88 cents a lb, dropping from Thursday's two-week high at 15.05 cents.
• On spread, firm nearby demand initially boosted the March/May to 18 over, but gave back the gains achieve during the past 2 sessions toward end of day and settled at 4 over.
• London March white sugar futures settled down 60 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $382.80 per tonne.
• The March #5 whites expired on Friday – Sucden delivered 1,260 lots of Guatemalans while ED&F Man took 700 lots and Louis Dreyfus 560 lots.
• Latin American financial markets were steady to higher on Friday as hopes of a Greek debt deal and stronger-than-expected German economic data boosted appetite for risk across the globe, although the Brazilian real weakened modestly as investors turned cautious ahead of the long Carnival holiday.