Sugar gained, capping the biggest weekly gain since January, after output plunged in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer and exporter. Coffee and cocoa futures fell in New York. From mid-March to the end of April, sugar output in Brazil’s Center South fell 69 percent to 795,000 metric tons from a year earlier, industry group Unica said yesterday. “The numbers from Unica have raised supply concerns,” said Bruno Lima, a risk-management consultant at FCStone Group Inc. in Campinas, Brazil. “Prices will remain firm.” Raw sugar for July delivery rose 0.12 cent, or 0.6 percent, to settle at 21.45 cents a pound at 2 p.m. on ICE Futures U.S. in New York. For the week, the price jumped 4.8 percent, paring this year’s decline to 33 percent. In London, refined-sugar futures for August delivery climbed 70 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $602.80 a ton on NYSE Liffe. Arabica-coffee futures for July delivery fell 5.55 cents, or 2 percent, to $2.694 a pound in New York, down 6.3 percent in five days, the biggest weekly slide since June 2009. In London, robusta-coffee futures for July delivery gained $16, or 0.6 percent, to $2,527 a ton. Cocoa futures for July delivery fell $35, or 1.2 percent, to $3,002 a ton. Cocoa also retreated in London. To contact the reporters on this story: Isis Almeida in London at ialmeida3@bloomberg.net; Debarati Roy in New York at droy5@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Steve Stroth at sstroth@bloomberg.net

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