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Coffee futures extended their decline on Thursday, with Arabica breaking through several closely watched technical levels and Robusta settling below $3,400 per tonne. The immediate market narrative remains dominated by improving Brazilian availability, a nearly completed harvest and continued speculative selling. Weather risk has not disappeared, however. Hail has
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Thursday’s sell-off appears to have accelerated as cocoa broke below its recent consolidation. New York December failed to sustain an early advance to $6,038, then lost support around $5,860 and $5,800 before reaching $5,506. It finished at a last traded price of $5,620,
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Coffee futures remained under pressure on Wednesday, with both New York Arabica and London Robusta ending lower as the market extended a sharp multi-week correction. The decline was accompanied by softer calendar spreads, higher certified stocks and stronger Brazilian shipment data, all signals that reduced some of the immediate
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Cocoa futures rebounded across both markets on 16 September, although the closing profiles differed. New York Dec-26 gained $91, or 1.55%, to a last-trade close of $5,951 after trading between $5,876 and $6,047, a 2.91% intraday range. The contract remained above its previous
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Coffee futures came under renewed selling pressure on Tuesday, with both Arabica and Robusta extending their recent declines despite several potentially supportive developments on the physical and weather side of the market. Trading continued to be dominated by technical positioning and speculative flows, while fresh reports of hail damage in
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* New York Dec-26 cocoa closed at $5,860, down 2.80%, after failing to hold an intraday recovery to $6,085. * Ghana faces potential new-season purchasing disruption as LBCs struggle with financing constraints and outstanding COCOBOD debt. * Côte d’Ivoire producer groups are escalating strike threats over the
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Brazil’s coffee export flow is showing signs of strengthening in September even as shipment data remain below last year’s pace. Government customs figures indicate a sharp increase in green coffee exports during the opening weeks of the month, while Cecafé data show slower physical shipments but a sizeable
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Cocoa futures rebounded on Monday after Friday’s broad sell-off, with gains recorded across both the New York and London curves. In New York, Dec-26 cocoa rose from $5,913 to $6,023, gaining $110, or 1.86%, while the rest of the comparable curve advanced by roughly
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The coffee market is entering the second half of September with an increasingly pronounced disconnect between futures pricing and conditions in the physical market. New York arabica has remained under pressure as speculative selling, expectations for improved Brazilian supply and the prospect of fresh coffee entering ICE warehouses have encouraged
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Cocoa futures ended Friday with a pronounced intraday reversal, particularly in New York. Dec-26 initially rallied toward $6,200/t, but the advance failed to hold and was followed by a sustained sequence of lower highs and lower lows through the remainder of the session. Selling intensified after the
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Arabica coffee futures extended their decline on Thursday, with the December ICE New York contract falling back below the 290-cent level as the market continued to adjust to improving Brazilian supply availability, record export flows and a more favourable weather outlook. December settled 390 points lower at 288.15
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New York cocoa was highly volatile on 10 September, with Dec-26 trading through a wide $245-per-tonne range between $5,786 and $6,031. Prices came under heavy pressure early in the session and briefly broke below $5,800, but the decline attracted buying and the contract recovered