Cocoa Beans News
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Euromar Commodities GmbH, the European unit of cocoa processor Transmar Group, delivered some cocoa into the expired May futures contract on NYSE Liffe in London after slowing its factory in Fehrbellin, Germany.
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Farmers in Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, say they can’t sell supplies from the country’s mid-crop harvest because dry weather left beans too small to meet minimum requirements.
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The cost of cocoa butter relative to bean prices rebounded in Europe in the past six weeks as demand improved and processors adjusted to lower powder prices, according to three traders with direct knowledge of the sales.
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Cocoa processing in Asia, a sign of demand for the chocolate ingredient, fell 11 percent in the first quarter, according to an industry group representing companies including Mars Inc.
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Purchases of cocoa beans in Ivory Coast, the biggest producer, fell 7.5 percent in the first three months of the 2012-13 season, according to a document from the ministries of finance and agriculture.
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Ivory Coast’s central town of Bouake has become a transit hub for cocoa beans that are being smuggled to northern neighbor Burkina Faso as a one-month export ban slows down shipments from the country’s southern ports.
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Stop what you’re doing for a second and think about chocolate. Mmmm. Chocolate bars, chocolate ice cream, hot chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, 70 percent-cocoa dark chocolate bars (for the antioxidant hawks). What a delight. What a luxury.
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Exports of cocoa beans from Ivory Coast’s port of Abidjan soared in June, according to statistics from the harbor.
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Cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast said beans are piling up at the farms or being smuggled to neighboring countries after a civil war left the industry in disarray.
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Cocoa futures climbed to a three- week high on signs of reduced deliveries by farmers in Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer. Orange juice and cotton also gained, while coffee slid. Sugar was unchanged.
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