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U.S. to Bail Out Sugar Processors?

May drive candy prices higher.

Here’s a sweet deal. The USDA is mulling buying 400,000 tons of sugar to prevent defaults by sugar processors. Sugar prices have fallen dramatically since the USDA began a government price-support program and loaned $862 million to the processors. The resulting higher prices of this bailout would hurt major candy companies like Mars Inc. and Hershey Co.

Read it at The Wall St. Journal

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