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2019 was a tough year for the coffee futures market. In mid-April, the price of the soft commodity dropped to its lowest level since the second half of 2005. Coffee traded to a low at 86.35 cents per pound in April. After an attempt at a recovery, coffee futures struggled in August when the ...

By Warren Patterson, Head of Commodities Strategy and Wenyu Yao, Senior Commodities Strategist Sugar returns to deficit The global sugar market is set to return to a deficit of around 6.1mt in the 2019/20 season, having spent the last two seasons in surplus. The change has been...

Coffee is experiencing a recovery rather than a true bull market, Judith Ganes, president of J Ganes Consulting, told Real Vision’s Trade Ideas. Longer term, she expects recovery to continue, but anytime the market spikes up as this one has, it's going to take a break. Time and t...

On Tuesday, December 10, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture will release its final World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2019. The December report comes after the 2019 harvest and does not typically cause significant price volatility in the agricultural futures ma...

Chocolate is a popular treat around the world. Once people discover the taste delight of a chocolate confectionery product, they often become a chocoholic. The primary ingredient in chocolate is the cocoa bean. More than 60% of the world's cocoa supplies each year come from the West African na...

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that it will take a consistent, cold snowy winter to get natural gas ( UNG ) prices out of the doldrums. US shale production continues to soar, natural gas stocks were replenished by a relatively warm winter last year, a weak Gulf hurricane season...

The profits of the world's leading agricultural companies have suffered under the weight of the trade war between the United States and China. The US is the top producer and exporter of corn and soybeans. When it comes to wheat, the nation is a significant exporter of the grain that is the pri...

On November 18, the price of nearby cocoa futures on the Intercontinental Exchange rose to the highest price since May 2018. Since mid-August, the price of the soft commodity has been climbing. At the most recent peak on November 18, the nearby futures contract was almost $700 per ton higher t...

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Since the turn of this century, the price range in the cocoa futures market has been from $674 to $3826 per ton. At the $2500 level on November 11, the price of the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products is above the midpoints. When it comes to the demand side of the fundamen...