$Coca-Cola(KO)$$Pepsi(PEP)$$iShares U.S. Consumer Staples ETF(IYK)$ 🍾🇺🇸📉 Coca-Cola’s cane sugar curveball: political pressure, margin shock, and an earnings coil primed to snap 📉🇺🇸🍾 Trump just dragged $KO into a high-stakes flavour war, and with earnings on deck, the stock is sitting on a loaded spring. On 18Jul25, Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that Coca-Cola will return to using cane sugar in U.S. production. The company responded with deliberate ambiguity, teasing “innovative offerings” without confirming any actual change to its core formula. Despite the vagueness, markets reacted quickly. Corn refiners like $ADM and $INGR were hit on the demand shock
$Coca-Cola(KO)$$Pepsi(PEP)$$iShares U.S. Consumer Staples ETF(IYK)$ 🍾🇺🇸📉 Coca-Cola’s cane sugar curveball: political pressure, margin shock, and an earnings coil primed to snap 📉🇺🇸🍾 Trump just dragged $KO into a high-stakes flavour war, and with earnings on deck, the stock is sitting on a loaded spring. On 18Jul25, Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that Coca-Cola will return to using cane sugar in U.S. production. The company responded with deliberate ambiguity, teasing “innovative offerings” without confirming any actual change to its core formula. Despite the vagueness, markets reacted quickly. Corn refiners like $ADM and $INGR were hit on the demand shock