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NEW YORK, March 28 (Reuters) - Arabica coffee futures rose slightly on Friday on ICE but posted a 3% weekly loss, while raw sugar prices fell to a two-week low. * Arabica coffee settled up 1.15 cent, ...

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - Arabica coffee futures traded on the ICE exchange hit their lowest in a month on Thursday, as concerns grow that consumption might fall in response to high prices. * ...

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India will not restrict mills from exporting the 1 million metric tons of sugar permitted for the current season, sources said, quashing speculation that falling output estimates for the current year ...

The Ugandan shilling was largely stable on Wednesday, with some hard currency inflows from commodity exports like coffee, cocoa and others providing support, traders said.

Sugar, a politically sensitive commodity, is heavily regulated by the government. As well as setting the price for cane that mills must pay to growers, the federal government fixes the quantity each ...

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Could paying £5 for a standard cup of coffee soon become the norm? That's the fear among some coffee shop owners, who say it won't help their business. An organisation that analyses the sector says it ...

Coffee prices soared nearly 60% over the last six months, with the price of Arabica beans reaching a 50-year peak, stirring concerns about the potential impact on the margins of coffee chains like ...

Commodity traders Cargill, Marex, Olam and Louis Dreyfus, along with the world's largest coffee roaster JDE Peet's, are among firms that lost money with the downfall of Brazilian coffee traders ...

Years of droughts in Mexico have already fractured its sugar exports to the US. Now President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs risk making the once-lucrative trade relationship even worse for America’s ...

The Ugandan shilling was steady in early trade on Wednesday, drawing some support from inflows of hard currency from exporters of coffee and other commodities, traders said.

The surging price of gold is leading to some unexpected outcomes. The FT’s Aanu Adeoye traveled to Ghana to see how this is playing out among two of the country’s top commodities: gold and cocoa. Aanu ...

This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘How high gold prices are fuelling a chocolate shortage’ Michela Tindera Lately, the price of gold has been exploding. News clips ...

The National Cotton Council applauds the Trump Administration for their swift action in providing direct economic assistance to producers through the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program.

Ivory Coast's cocoa mid-crop output is expected to drop around 40% this season after an unusually long dry season and limited, patchy rainfall hit crops in the main production regions, exporters and ...

Cocoa futures on the ICE exchange hit four-month lows on Friday and ended the week with losses above 5% amid a large increase in ICE-certified stocks and benign weather forecasts for West Africa ...

Raw coffee price shocks take about a year to feed through to consumers while the residual impact lasts at least four years, according to a report published on Friday by the United Nation's Food and ...

A big jump in global sugar commodity prices last month looks like presaging further increases later in the year, potentially more bad news for people with a sweet tooth following record recent ...

White sugar rose 1% to $538.70 a metric ton. * London cocoa settled down 148 pounds, or 2.3%, to 6,341 pounds per ton. * Dealers said there appeared to be appetite to take delivery against the ...

Futures for robusta, the variety typically used for instant drinks and espressos, were little changed at $5,550 a ton in London on Wednesday. Arabica coffee, the high-end beans favored in specialty ...

Raw sugar futures rose on Wednesday, supported by dry weather in Brazil and weaker production outlooks in India and Thailand, while coffee prices fell. * Raw sugar futures settled up 0.19 cent, or 1%, ...

An unparalleled rally in cocoa and coffee futures is leaving traders so cash-strapped that many no longer have enough money to ship the two commodities around the world.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's sugar output for the 2024/25 marketing year, ending in September is projected to fall below consumption for the first time in eight years because of reduced sugarcane ...

MUMBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - India's cotton imports in 2024/25 are likely to double from a year ago as production is set to fall below consumption because of a decline in acreage planted and ...

As of 11 March at 1:45:08 pm GMT-4. Market open. Deliveries of raw sugar on the expiry of the March contract on ICE exchange were seen at 34,385 lots, or 1.74 million metric tons, according to ...

HOUSTON, March 10 (Reuters) - Theft of truck loads of green coffee beans is surging in the United States, the world's largest importer of the commodity, as prices for the beans increased to all ...

Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on Friday.

Commodities trader Louis Dreyfus said in a presentation during the conference that the coffee planted area has been expanding in reaction to the higher prices. Expansion has happened in countries ...