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Show Sugar Market. NEW YORK. Feb. 16. Raw sugar, nominal; centrifugal, 6.40c; molasses sugar, 4.53c; refined, firm; fine granulated, granu-lated, 7.00c to 7.25c. Sugar futures were strong and excited. There was active I covering of shorts and considerable buying buy-ing by Cuban interests, prompted by the unsettled conditions in Cuba and the firmness of the spot market. At noon prices were fifteen to twenty-eight points net higher. Closed steady and eight to eighteen points higher. Sales. 21,500 tons. March, 4.59c; May, 4.54c; July, 4.52c. |