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- July 29, 2021
With the month of July coming to a close and with the shipment statistics already at hand, the Vietnam General Statistics office have estimated that the coffee exports for the month of July shall be registered at the same figure as the same month last yea
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- July 28, 2021
The focus of the coffee markets remains on the weather in Brazil, as the next cold front moves into the Brazil coffee growing areas and forecast to arrive in the coming days. The question of whether, or not there may be conditions that are cool enough to
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- July 27, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market raise their net long position within this market by 39.58% over the week of trade leading up to Tu
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- July 26, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 58.99% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 20th. June: to register a net lo
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- July 23, 2021
The New York market has for a third continuous day extended this week’s parabolic rally with the market gaining more than 21% in value over the last three days, this on the back of news of frost damage to certain areas in the Brazil coffee belt. There h
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- July 22, 2021
The New York market carried through the news of frost damage to certain areas in the Brazil coffee belt, with reports of an unusual cold snap, with temperatures dropping below zero (Celsius) and an extraordinary in recent times, frost occurrence reported
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- July 21, 2021
The Conilon robusta crop that is related to mostly the northern coffee districts of Brazil is near to harvest completion and has been estimated by the private trade and industry reports, to have been between 19.50 and 20.50 million bags. While the new ara
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- July 21, 2021
The Conilon robusta crop that is related to mostly the northern coffee districts of Brazil is near to harvest completion and has been estimated by the private trade and industry reports, to have been between 19.50 and 20.50 million bags. While the new ara
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- July 20, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 7.94% over the week of trade leading up to Tuesd
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- July 20, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 7.94% over the week of trade leading up to Tuesd
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- July 19, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 10.81% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 13th. June: to register a net long
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- July 16, 2021
The Green Coffee Association of the U.S.A. have announced that the country’s port warehouse stocks decreased by 35,678 bags or 0.61% during the month of June, to register these stocks at 5,779,461 bags at the end of the month. Of this total, 138,835 bag
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- July 15, 2021
The September-to-September contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets widened yesterday to register this at 76.68 usc/Lb. This equates to 48.97% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This wide arbitrage will likely be viewed
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- July 14, 2021
The Ugandan Coffee Development Authority UCDA have reported that their country’s coffee exports for the month of June were 197,825 bags or 47.04% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 618,388 bags, this number proving to be the highest mon
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- July 13, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 19.29% over the week of trade leading up to Tues
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- July 13, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 19.29% over the week of trade leading up to Tues
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- July 12, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 25.86% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 6th. June: to register a net long
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- July 09, 2021
The analysts Safras & Mercado have reported than an estimated 54% of the new Brazil coffee crop has already been harvested. Based on the forecast for a new crop of 56.50 million bags, the report would indicate that so far approximately 30 million bags of
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- July 09, 2021
The analysts Safras & Mercado have reported than an estimated 54% of the new Brazil coffee crop has already been harvested. Based on the forecast for a new crop of 56.50 million bags, the report would indicate that so far approximately 30 million bags of
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- July 08, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee exports for the month of June were 137,000 bags or 12.20% lower than the same month last year, at a total of 986,000 bags. This due to the national strike which h
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- July 07, 2021
The International Coffee Organisation ICO have reported that the global coffee exports for the month of May were 10.10% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 9.79 million bags. This they say, has contributed to the cumulative globa
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- July 06, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market raise their net long position within this market by 12.76% over the week of trade leading up to Tu
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- July 05, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 19.10% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 29th. June: to register a net long
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- July 02, 2021
With the month of June complete, the usual round of export reports are coming to the fore, the Indonesian government trade data from Sumatra, the leading coffee producing island within Indonesia, has reported that the islands robusta coffee exports for th
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- July 01, 2021
The September-to-September contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets narrowed yesterday; to register this at 82.41 usc/Lb. This equates to 51.59% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This wide arbitrage will likely be view
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- June 30, 2021
The mainstream northern hemisphere coffee consumer markets are in their slower summer holiday season, which contributes to somewhat lacklustre physical coffee trade for the present. A scenario that is unlikely to change for the short term as these markets
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- June 29, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 17.12% over the week of trade leading up to Tues
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- June 28, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 23.75% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 22nd. June: to register a net long
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- June 25, 2021
The analysts Safras & Mercado have estimated that almost 40% of the new Brazil coffee crop has already been harvested. Based on the forecast for a new crop of 56.50 million bags, the report would indicate that so far approximately 23 million bags of the n
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- June 24, 2021
New crop coffees are flowing to the internal market within Indonesia at this time, as the Indonesia robusta coffee harvest traditionally starts in April each year, and supply of new crop Indonesia robusta coffees has seen increased volumes of green bean f
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- June 23, 2021
The Ugandan Coffee Development Authority UCDA have reported that their country’s coffee exports for the month of May were 56,453 bags or 12.90% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 494,050 bags. Uganda Robusta exports registered a 25.98%
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- June 22, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 8.49% over the week of trade leading up to Tuesd
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- June 21, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the London Robusta coffee market has seen the Speculative Managed Money Sector of this market cut their net long position by 0.30% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 15th. June: to r
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- June 18, 2021
The analysts Safras & Mercado have estimated that almost 34% of the new Brazil coffee crop has already been harvested. Based on the forecast for a new crop of 56.50 million bags, the report would indicate that so far approximately 19 million bags of the n
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- June 17, 2021
The September-to-September contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets widened yesterday; to register this at 81.56 usc/Lb. This equates to 52.47% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This wide arbitrage will likely be viewe
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- June 16, 2021
The Green Coffee Association of the U.S.A. have announced that the country’s port warehouse stocks increased by 52,571 bags or 0.91% during the month of May, to register these stocks at 5,815,138 bags at the end of the month. Of this total, 140,461 bags
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- June 15, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 3.23% over the week of trade leading up to Tuesd
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- June 14, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 4.41% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 8th. June: to register a net long p
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- June 11, 2021
The Vietnam Customs Authority have reported that Vietnam’s coffee exports for the month of May have registered 1.40% lower from the previous month, at 2,171,417 bags. This number is proving to be marginally lower than the 2.25 million bags that had been
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- June 10, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have not reported the country’s coffee production figures for the month of May, due to the unusual circumstances surrounding the national social unrest and protests against a proposed tax reform.
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- June 09, 2021
The Brazil Real currency has shown a degree of muscle against the US Dollar over the last week, reaching its highest level in over five months against the US Dollar. A stronger Brazil Real traditionally discourages export selling from Brazil’s coffee pr
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- June 09, 2021
The Brazil Real currency has shown a degree of muscle against the US Dollar over the last week, reaching its highest level in over five months against the US Dollar. A stronger Brazil Real traditionally discourages export selling from Brazil’s coffee pr
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- June 08, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market raised their net long position within this market by 8.28% over the week of trade leading up to Tu
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- June 07, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 19.05% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 1st. June: to register a net lon
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- June 04, 2021
The weather forecasts in Brazil continue to be a point of focus and for the speculative sector of the futures markets. In this respect and across the expansive arabica coffee growing belt, there have been conflicting reports coming to the fore. The histor
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- June 03, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that social unrest and protests against a proposed tax reform, which started at the beginning of May have disrupted the flow of coffee from the interior, with the Federation releasing a stat
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- June 02, 2021
The Brazil government have reported that the country’s green coffee exports for the month of May were 426,183 bags or 11.86% lower than the same month last year, at a total of 3,168,633 bags, the official breakdown of coffee exports by description for M
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- June 01, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market raised their net long position within this market by 2.63% over the week of trade leading up to Tu
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- May 31, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 0.18% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 25th. May: to register a net long
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- May 28, 2021
The respected U.S. Department of Agriculture Global Agricultural Network USDA have reported their forecast for the production from the predominantly Robusta coffee producing nation of Indonesia for the current April 2021 to March 2022 coffee marketing yea
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- May 27, 2021
The respected United States Department of Agriculture USDA Global Agricultural Information Network have revised their estimate for the Guatemalan coffee crop that is made up of mainly washed arabica coffee over the current October 2020 to September 2021 c
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- May 26, 2021
Brazil’s government food supply and statistics agency CONAB have come forth to report that they foresee the next 2021 new Brazil coffee crop, due to the biennial bearing nature of the arabica coffee farms shall be 22% lower than the previous 2020 Brazil
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- May 25, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 0.23% over the week of trade leading up to Tuesd
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- May 24, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 1.97% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 18th. May: to register a net long
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- May 21, 2021
The Ugandan Coffee Development Authority UCDA have reported that their country’s coffee exports for the month of April were 177,245 bags or 49.19% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 537,538 bags. Uganda Robusta exports registered a 76.6
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- May 20, 2021
The Guatemalan Coffee Institute, ANACAFE, have reported that coffee exports from the mainly washed arabica coffee producer are expected to fall by 3%, to total 3.1 million bags for the October 2020 to September 2021 coffee year, when compared to the previ
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- May 19, 2021
The respected U.S. Department of Agriculture Global Agricultural Network USDA have reported their forecast for the exclusively arabica coffee crop from Honduras for the present October 2020 to September 2021 coffee year, to reach an overall 6,236,000 bags
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- May 19, 2021
The respected U.S. Department of Agriculture Global Agricultural Network USDA have reported their forecast for the exclusively arabica coffee crop from Honduras for the present October 2020 to September 2021 coffee year, to reach an overall 6,236,000 bags
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- May 18, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 5.36% over the week of trade leading up to
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- May 17, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 2.34% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 11th. May: to register a net long
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- May 17, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 2.34% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 11th. May: to register a net long
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- May 14, 2021
The U.S. Governments National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Centre have reported that La Niña weather conditions have ended and that there remains a 67% chance that El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral weather conditions are likely to co
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- May 13, 2021
The Vietnam Customs Authority have reported that Vietnam’s coffee exports for the month of April have registered 22.10% lower from the previous month, at 2,201,850 bags. This number is proving to be higher than the 1.83 million bags that had been initia
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- May 12, 2021
The Coffee Exporters Association in Brazil Cecafé have reported that the countries green coffee exports for the month of April were 7.19% lower than the same month last year, to total 3.03 million bags, this number made up of 2.71 million bags of arabica
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- May 11, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 10.22% over the week of trade leading up to
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- May 10, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 0.91% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 4th. May: to register a net long
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- May 10, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 0.91% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 4th. May: to register a net long
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- May 10, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 0.91% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 4th. May: to register a net long
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- May 07, 2021
The International Coffee Organisation ICO have reported that the global coffee exports for the month of March were 2.40% higher than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 11.94 million bags. This they say, has contributed to the cumulative gl
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- May 06, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee production for the month of April was 66,000 bags or 8.87% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 810,000 bags. This has contributed to the countries
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- May 06, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee production for the month of April was 66,000 bags or 8.87% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 810,000 bags. This has contributed to the countries
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- May 05, 2021
The Ivory Coast as west Africa’s leading robusta coffee producer, have reported that their coffee exports for the month of March were 73,167 bags or 70.73% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 31,300 bags. This has contributed t
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- May 05, 2021
The Ivory Coast as west Africa’s leading robusta coffee producer, have reported that their coffee exports for the month of March were 73,167 bags or 70.73% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 31,300 bags. This has contributed t
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- May 05, 2021
The Ivory Coast as west Africa’s leading robusta coffee producer, have reported that their coffee exports for the month of March were 73,167 bags or 70.73% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 31,300 bags. This has contributed t
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- May 05, 2021
The Ivory Coast as west Africa’s leading robusta coffee producer, have reported that their coffee exports for the month of March were 73,167 bags or 70.73% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 31,300 bags. This has contributed t
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- May 04, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 94.67% over the week of trade leading up to
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- May 03, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 89.29% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 27th. April: to register a net l
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- May 03, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 89.29% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 27th. April: to register a net l
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- May 01, 2021
The July-to-July contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets narrowed yesterday; to register this at 77.14 usc/Lb. This equates to 53.94% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This wide arbitrage will likely be viewed by pric
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- April 29, 2021
With the month of April drawing to a close, the Vietnam General Statistics office have estimated that the coffee exports for the month of April will be 34.20% lower than the same month last year, at a total of approximately 1,833,333 bags. This they sa
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- April 28, 2021
28th April, 2021. The July-to-July contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets widened yesterday; to register this at 79.63 usc/Lb. This equates to 55.55% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This wide arbitrage will likely
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- April 27, 2021
27th. April 2021. The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 74.41% over the week of
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- April 26, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 36.18% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 20th. April: to registe
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- April 23, 2021
The July-to-July contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets widened yesterday: to register this at 72.29 usc/Lb. This equates to 53.09% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This arbitrage may become an attractive factor for
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- April 22, 2021
The July-to-July contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets narrowed yesterday: to register this at 70.24 usc/Lb. This equates to 52.34% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market. This arbitrage may become an attractive factor fo
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- April 21, 2021
The Ugandan Coffee Development Authority UCDA have reported that their country’s coffee exports for the month of March were 91,878 bags or 19.10% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 572,839 bags. Uganda Robusta exports registered a 26.93
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- April 20, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 108.48% over the week of trade leading up t
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- April 19, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 64.99% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 13th. April: to register a net l
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- April 16, 2021
The Green Coffee Association of the U.S.A. have announced that the country’s port warehouse stocks fell by 111,409 bags or 1.92% during the month of March, to register these stocks at 5,679,162 bags at the end of the month. Of this total, 91,838 bags we
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- April 15, 2021
There is little in the way of striking fundamental news coming to the markets and from the larger coffee producing coffee countries. The focus within the futures markets remains on the upcoming Brazil harvest, starting in the Conilon robusta areas and to
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- April 14, 2021
The new Brazil harvest is starting in the Conilon robusta areas, to be followed in a few months by the main harvesting months within the arabica areas, the latter traditionally set to pick up pace in June each year. The weather has been reported to be con
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- April 13, 2021
The Coffee Exporters Association in Brazil Cecafé have reported that the countries green coffee exports for the month of March were 2.70% lower than the same month last year, to total 3.06 million bags, this number made up of 2.71 million bags of arabica
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- April 12, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 43.95% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 6th. April: to register a net long
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- April 09, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee production for the month of March was 244,000 bags or 30.27% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 1,050,000 bags. This has contributed to the count
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- April 08, 2021
The International Coffee Organisation ICO have reported that the global coffee exports for the month of February were 6.10% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 10.47 million bags. This they say, has contributed to the cumulative
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- April 07, 2021
The National Coffee Institute of Honduras (IHCAFE) have reported that the country’s coffee exports for the month of March were 25.02% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 965,598 bags. The report also states that coffee exports for the fi
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- April 07, 2021
The National Coffee Institute of Honduras (IHCAFE) have reported that the country’s coffee exports for the month of March were 25.02% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 965,598 bags. The report also states that coffee exports for the fi
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- April 06, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 43.31% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 30th. March: to register a net lon
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- April 01, 2021
The Ivory Coast as west Africa’s leading robusta coffee producer, have reported that their coffee exports for the month of February were 74,017 bags or 62.95% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 43,550 bags. This has contribute
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- March 31, 2021
The May-to-May contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets narrowed yesterday: to register this at 61.46 usc/Lb. This equates to 50.13% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market.
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- March 30, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market decrease their net long position within this market by 30.21% over the week of trade leading up to
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- March 29, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 23.52% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 23rd. March: to register a net lon
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- March 26, 2021
The Colombian National Coffee Growers Federation have come forth to report that the traditional washed quality arabica producer, reached a cumulative output level for the October 2019 to September 2020 coffee year of 13.90 million bags or 6% down from the
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- March 25, 2021
The European Coffee Federation, E.C.F. have reported that the port warehouse coffee stocks held within reporting warehouses in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, to have registered an increase in the month of December 2020 to be increased by 1% on
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- March 24, 2021
The Ugandan Coffee Development Authority UCDA have reported that their country’s coffee exports for the month of February were 89,435 bags or 18.90% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 562,763 bags. Uganda Robusta exports registered a 28
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- March 23, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market decrease their net long position within this market by 9.20% over the week of trade leading up to
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- March 22, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 4.22% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 16th. March: to register a net long
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- March 19, 2021
Trade within Vietnam has remained quiet over the past week, with many farmers holding back on sales due to unattractive prices. Many coffee farmers in Vietnam are diversified in that they do have other cash crops intercropped with coffee; this allows them
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- March 18, 2021
The analysts Safras & Mercado have reported that Brazil coffee farmers have already forward sold around 28% of their estimated total production of 57.10 million bags from the coming July 2021 to June 2022 coffee crop. The pace of sales at this time when c
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- March 17, 2021
Brazil is nearing the end of their prevailing July 2020 to June 2021 coffee year, with reports that Brazil coffee farmers have already sold around 87% of the estimated total production of 70 million bags from this current July 2020 to June 2021 coffee cro
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- March 16, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market decrease their net long position within this market by 19.85% over the week of trade leading up to
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- March 15, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector increase their net long position by 18.78% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 9th. March: to register a net
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- March 12, 2021
The U.S. Governments National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Centre have reviewed their forecast to maintain a 60% chance of a shift from La Niña to neutral weather conditions between April and June. It is expected that La Niña weather condition
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- March 11, 2021
The May-to-May contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets widened yesterday: to register this at 67.30 usc/Lb. This equates to 51.43% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market.
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- March 10, 2021
The Coffee Exporters Association in Brazil Cecafé have reported that the countries green coffee exports for the month of February were 11.23% higher than the same month last year, to total 2.99 million bags, this number made up of 2.68 million bags of Ar
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- March 09, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 7.65% over the week of trade leading up to
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- March 08, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector increase their net long position by 2.43% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 2nd. March: to register a net
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- March 05, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee production for the month of February was 106,000 bags or 10.59% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 1,107,000 bags. This has contributed to the co
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- March 04, 2021
The International Coffee Organisation ICO have come forth to maintain their earlier forecast for global coffee supply and demand for the current October 2020 to September 2021 coffee year, to report that against an estimated global coffee supply of 171.89
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- March 03, 2021
The International Coffee Organisation ICO have reported that the global coffee exports for the month of January were 3.59% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 10.21 million bags. This they say, has contributed to the cumulative g
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- March 02, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 67.07% over the week of trade leading up to
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- March 01, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector increase their net long position by 82.10% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 23rd. February: to register a
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- February 26, 2021
The Ugandan Coffee Development Authority UCDA have reported that their country’s coffee exports for the month of January were 23,103 bags or 4.92% lower than the same month last year, at a total of 446,550 bags. Uganda Robusta exports registered a 5.65%
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- February 25, 2021
The Colombian National Coffee Growers Federation have come forth to report that they foresee production over the first six months of this calendar year to be around 6.06 million bags, this number 1.4% lower than the same period in the previous year.
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- February 24, 2021
Following on from a new crop survey, Rabobank has come forth with their revised report to forecast Brazil coffee production could potentially be around 56.20 million bags the coming July 2021 to June 2022 coffee year, this revised forecast lower by 1.20 m
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- February 23, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market decrease their net long position within this market by 7.65% over the week of trade leading up to
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- February 22, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 1.51% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 16th. February: to register a net l
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- February 19, 2021
The Northern Hemisphere coffee consumer markets have moved through their traditionally higher coffee consumption months of winter, mostly in various regulated lockdowns while navigating through Covid19 related restrictions. Within these coffee consumer ma
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- February 18, 2021
The Vietnamese have returned from their week-long Tet New Year celebrations over the last week, which brought in the year of the Buffalo on Friday 12th February. The shortened week may see a degree of catch-up price fixation selling activity, to bring som
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- February 17, 2021
The Green Coffee Association of the U.S.A. have announced that the country’s port warehouse stocks fell by 135,130 bags or 2.26% during the month of January, to register these stocks at 5,843,171 bags at the end of the month. Of this total, 92,888 bags
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- February 16, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market decrease their net long position within this market by 11.20% over the week of trade leading up to
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- February 15, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 13.47% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 9th. February: to register a new
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- February 12, 2021
The U.S. Governments National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Centre have reviewed their forecast to now see a 60% chance of a shift from La Niña to neutral weather conditions in the coming months. It is expected that La Niña weather conditions w
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- February 11, 2021
The March 2021 to March 2021 contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets narrowed yesterday: to register this at 59.91 usc/Lb. This equates to 49.47% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market.
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- February 10, 2021
The Coffee Exporters Association in Brazil, Cecafé have reported that the countries green coffee exports for the month of January 2021 were 7.88% lower than the same month in the previous year, to total 2.89 million bags, this number made up of 2.65 mill
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- February 09, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 1.41% over the week of trade leading up to
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- February 08, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raised their net long position by 3.27% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 2nd. February: to register a n
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- February 05, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee production for the month of January was 31,000 bags or 2.95% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 1,081,000 bags. This has contributed to the count
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- February 04, 2021
There are only nine days of the Vietnamese and Chinese Year of the Rat left and seven trading days ahead, for Vietnamese robusta coffee farmers and exporters before the country closes for the coming holidays that start on Friday 12th February. This in obs
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- February 03, 2021
The International Coffee Organisation ICO have reported that the global coffee exports for the month of December were 1.48% higher than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 10.97 million bags. This they say, has contributed to the cumulative
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- February 02, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 2.13% over the week of trade leading up to
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- February 01, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 6.52% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 26th. January: to register a new
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- January 29, 2021
With the month of January coming to a close and with the shipment statistics already at hand, the Vietnam General Statistics office have estimated that the coffee exports for the month of January shall be 17.60% lower than the same month last year, at a t
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- January 28, 2021
The Ivory Coast as west Africa’s leading robusta coffee producer, have reported that their coffee exports for the month of December 2020 were 93,283 bags or 59.42% lower than the same month in the previous year, at a total of 63,717 bags. This has contr
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- January 27, 2021
The March 2021 to March 2021 contract arbitrage between the London and New York markets widened yesterday: to register this at 64.76 usc/Lb. This equates to 52.02% price discount for the London Robusta coffee market.
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- January 26, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market increase their net long position within this market by 52.10% over the week of trade leading up to
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- January 25, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 47.65% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 19th. January: to register a n
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- January 22, 2021
Brazil’s government food supply and statistics agency CONAB have reported that they foresee that the next 2021 new Brazil coffee crop, due to negative biennial bearing factors for the arabica coffee farms shall be between 43.80 million and 49.50 million
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- January 21, 2021
The Coffee Board of India have released their post monsoon estimate for the present October 2020 to September 2021 coffee crop to be 14.76% or 733,333 bags higher than the previous October 2019 to September 2020 coffee year, at a total of 5.7 million bags
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- January 20, 2021
The Coffee Exporters Association in Brazil Cecafé have reported that the countries green coffee exports for the month of December 2020 were 41.77% higher than the same month in the previous year, to total 3.91 million bags, this number made up of 3.53 mi
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- January 19, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 27.02% over the week of trade leading up to Tues
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- January 18, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 26.67% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 12th. January: to register a new
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- January 15, 2021
The U.S. Governments National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Centre have reviewed their forecast to maintain their projection that there is a 95% chance for the La Niña phenomenon to prevail through to March. La Niña being a weather phenomenon,
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- January 15, 2021
The U.S. Governments National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Centre have reviewed their forecast to maintain their projection that there is a 95% chance for the La Niña phenomenon to prevail through to March. La Niña being a weather phenomenon,
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- January 14, 2021
The Vietnam Customs Authority have come forth with their latest coffee export figures, to report that calendar year exports in 2020, registered 5.60% lower, then the same twelve months of exports in 2019, to reach a total of 26,666,667 bags. Vietnam, the
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- January 13, 2021
The markets remain devoid of any striking news to provide for direction for the present, with the perception of global surplus coffee supply weighing in on market sentiment. With perhaps on the short term only the weather watch in South East Brazil and th
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- January 12, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market cut their net long position within this market by 0.15% over the week of trade leading up to Tuesd
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- January 11, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector cut their net long position by 5.56% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 5th. January: to register a new n
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- January 08, 2021
The National Coffee Growers Federation in Colombia have reported that the country’s coffee production for the month of December was 63,000 bags or 3.75% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 1,743,000 bags. This has contributed to the coun
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- January 07, 2021
The National Coffee Institute of Costa Rica (ICAFE) have reported that the country’s coffee exports for the month of December were 17.50% higher than the same month last year, at a total of 41,756 bags. This they say has contributed to the cumulative co
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- January 06, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica coffee market has seen the shorter term in nature Managed Money fund sector of this market raise their net long position within this market by 6.26% over the week of trade leading up to Tue
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- January 05, 2021
The latest Commitment of Traders report from the New York arabica market has seen the Non-Commercial Speculative sector raise their net long position by 8.67% within the market over the week of trade leading up to Tuesday 29th. December: to register a n
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- January 04, 2021
The Indonesian government trade data from Sumatra, which is the leading coffee producing island within Indonesia, has reported that the islands robusta coffee exports for the month of December were 31,038 bags or 10.85% lower than the same month last year
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- December 31, 2020
The current and record-breaking production that has come from the Brazil coffee seasonal year July 2020 to June 2021, has thus far, from July to November reflected the record crop that has been harvested and continues to flow to consumer markets in record
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