NIB News and Press, iPath Bloomberg Cocoa Subindex Total Return SM IndexETN From 09/20/19

Cocoa has been a great market for those market participants that have bought scale-down during price corrections and sold scale-up on recoveries. The world's leading cocoa-producing nations are the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The weather conditions and climate in West Africa are ideal for growing t...

China's Ministry of Commerce says it will exempt soybeans, pork and other agricultural products from the U.S. from additional tariffs, in the latest move to ease trade tensions before the two countries restart trade talks next month. More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, iPath Series...

November soybean futures in Chicago fall as much as 1.3% after China announced additional tariffs on $75B of U.S. goods, including an added 5% tariff on soybeans and 10% on pork as of Sept. 1; corn and cotton products also are on the list. More news on: Titan International, Inc., Titan M...

The price of cocoa futures on the Intercontinental Exchange rose to the highest price in 2019 during the week of July 8. The price traded up to $2602 per ton. Since then, cocoa has moved lower over the past five of six weeks. On Monday, August 19, the price of nearby September futures was trad...

On Monday, August 12, the US Department of Agricultural released its August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The August report comes at a time when the growing season across the fertile plains of the US and the northern hemisphere is entering its final weeks. The fall har...

The Olmec, the first major civilization in Mexico (1500-400 BC), ate cocoa beans. They crushed the beans, mixed them with water, and added spices. The Olmec could be the first people that consumed chocolate. A ritual beverage, chocolatl , containing cocoa beans, was shared during Mayan marr...

Cocoa beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products. Over 60% of the world's annual supplies of the beans come from West Africa. The Ivory Coast and Ghana are the leading producers and exporters of cocoa to the world. Cocoa is a crop that is highly sensitive to the wea...

The months fly by, and now that the end of the second quarter of 2019 is in the books, it is time for the US Department of Agriculture to issue its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report once again. This month’s report will come out on Thursday, July 11, at noon E...

Cocoa beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products. The beans thrive in tropical climates near the equator. Therefore, the West African nations of the Ivory Coast and Ghana are the world's leading producers of cocoa. Together they account for around 60% of the global an...

The cocoa futures market recently rolled from the July to the September series of futures on the Intercontinental Exchange. The roll period can cause increased price variance as longs and shorts decide whether to carry their risk positions into the next active contract or exit the market. Th...