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Stocks closed a choppy session in mixed territory Tuesday, with the S&P five hundred slipping a fraction and the Nasdaq one hundred off nearly nine-tenths of a percent as tech names weighed on sentiment. The Dow managed a slim gain, but inflation pressures kept buyers cautious across the broader tape.
Shifting to commodities, sugar prices pushed higher on both New York and London exchanges after StoneX projected the global sugar market will slide into a supply deficit. Tighter inventories are driving that outlook, and traders responded by bidding up both raw and refined contracts, with London white sugar gaining just over one percent on the session.
Away from the markets, a striking consequence of the Iran conflict is rippling through global supply chains. Japanese snack giant Calbee, which commands half of Japan's snack market, announced it is printing some of its potato chip and shrimp cracker packaging in black and white because the war has disrupted supplies of a pigment critical to producing color printing inks. It is a tangible, consumer-facing signal of how geopolitical disruption translates into everyday economic reality.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
