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Cocoa futures closed higher in both New York and London, recovering from early weakness as the session progressed. In New York, the March contract settled at $5,406, up 94 points (+1.77%) from the prior close, after spending much of the session under pressure before stabilising into the close.
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Cocoa arrivals at ports in Ivory Coast have fallen behind last season’s levels in the early part of the 2025/26 campaign, according to exporter estimates. Since the start of the season on October 1, total arrivals at Ivorian ports reached approximately 1.125 million metric tons by January
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Cocoa prices suffered a sharp and disorderly reversal on Friday, plunging as much as 13% intraday, as exporter hedging overwhelmed index-related buying and triggered a broad liquidation of speculative length. What began earlier in the week as a rally driven by expectations of commodity index rebalancing rapidly unraveled once
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Cocoa entered the index-fund rebalancing window with attention centered on the New York benchmark, where Thursday’s prompt contract closed only slightly higher than the prior session, signaling marginal net strength until buying pressure accelerated later in the day. London ICE followed the move but at a smaller scale,
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Rumors of a smaller cocoa harvest in Ecuador are circulating, which introduces a short-term supply-shock narrative into market sentiment. Despite the speculation, analysts continue to treat Ecuador as the second-largest cocoa producer globally. Forecasting agency CRA maintains a long-range projection of approximately 800,000 metric tons
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The push to clean up mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) in cocoa has moved from lab slides to the rulebook. The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) has approved a new project to develop a food‑safe jute standard for cocoa and other commodities, formally led by the International Cocoa Organization
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Cocoa futures in both the UK and US markets corrected on 6 January, reflecting a broad, front-led liquidity rotation rather than a structural shift in fundamentals or curve inversion. The UK curve gave back ground in an orderly manner, with March-26 down 1.22%. The US front corrected
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Ivory Coast cocoa port arrivals have declined on a weekly basis since mid-December, but this trend reflects a combination of policy-driven delivery pacing and seasonal movement patterns rather than pure logistical breakdown. In early December, Ivorian authorities tightened transport permits so that truck deliveries to Abidjan and San
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Abidjan, 5 January 2026 – Unseasonal rainfall across Côte d’Ivoire’s main cocoa regions last week has improved soil moisture and raised expectations for stronger output as farmers return from the mid-year dry season, according to reports from Reuters. Rainfall has been persistent in key producing areas since December
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Cocoa bean deliveries to the main ports of Abidjan and San Pedro have reached approximately 1.071 million metric tons since the start of the 2025/26 season on October 1. This marks a 3.4% decrease year-on-year compared to the same period last season, based on exporter
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ICE cocoa futures sold off in the first post-holiday session, with front tenors leading weakness in both venues. In New York, Mar-26 closed at 5,891, down 152 (-2.52%) from 31-Dec, marking broad losses in May (-2.61%), July (-2.45%) and a smaller drop in
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On Wednesday, 31 December, cocoa futures markets closed 2025 with technically coherent but venue-divergent settlement, following a massive fund-assisted rally on 29 December and a liquidation-driven down session on 30 December. ICE US cocoa softened in the nearby 2026 tenors, with Mar-26 leading the pullback, while