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The March 2026 New York cocoa contract closed sharply lower on Tuesday, settling at 5,213, down 193 points (-3.57%) compared with the 12 January close of 5,406. The contract opened firm at 5,471 and quickly pushed to an intraday high of 5,494 before coming under
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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 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 higher
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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, adding
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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 of output, extending its
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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 more firmly,
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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 Pedro could
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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 September (-0.57%
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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 Sep-26 closed unchanged, confirming
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On Tuesday’s session, cocoa futures retraced significant gains made on Monday amid sharply reduced liquidity in the holiday period. Front-month March-26 cocoa on ICE U.S. closed down –166 points to 6,089 after climbing on Monday, while ICE London March-26 cocoa settled –115 points lower at 4,376.
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The cocoa market returned from the holidays with a renewed pulse in the futures tape, underpinned by re-engaged U.S. liquidity and a comparatively softer European close. On Monday,U.S. cocoa carried forward the mid-December bid structure, with nearby contracts closing sharply higher versus the last printed reference session,
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On 24 December, cocoa futures markets demonstrated technically driven and venue-divergent price action in a shortened holiday trading session. ICE US cocoa continued its prior-day rebound with modest, curve-wide gains across the 2026–27 strip, reflecting residual short covering under thin liquidity. ICE Europe cocoa, which closed earlier in GMT,