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Soft Futures - March 2011
- Brazilian sugar exporters to suffer from drought: [2011 Mar 30 05:32 PM] Heavy rain in Brazil is likely to delay harvests. Read more
- Cocoa futures drop amidst calls for ceasefire in Abidjan: [2011 Mar 30 04:51 PM] Indications that political violence and tension in the Ivory Coast is reducing pushed down cocoa futures on Wednesday. Read more
- Ivory Coast inches closer to civil war: [2011 Mar 29 08:12 AM] Forces loyal to the internationally recognized victor of the disputed November 2010 election in the Ivory Coast announced they gained control over four towns, which applies military pressure on the incumbent president who has resisted calls to step down. Read more
- Cocoa futures climb as presidential dispute persists: [2011 Mar 28 05:05 PM] Cocoa futures are poised to increase as tumult in the world's biggest producer of the commodity suggests the likelihood of bean shortage for next season. Read more
- Ouattara rejects AU envoy as Ivory Coast conflict rages: [2011 Mar 28 09:35 AM] The internationally recognized victor of last year's disputed election in the Ivory Coast will not accept the envoy selected by the African Union to sort through and attempt to resolve the conflict, Bloomberg reports. Read more
- Grade of Tanzania's marquee coffee bean slips: [2011 Mar 25 10:16 AM] Reduced quality and increased supply helped push down the grade of Tanzania's primary coffee, according to the Tanzania Coffee Board. Read more
- Tanzania coffee production to reduce by at least one-quarter: [2011 Mar 23 02:08 PM] Production of coffee in Africa's fifth-largest coffee grower will suffer a reduction as much as 27 percent through June of next year due to drought conditions, according to the nation's coffee board. Read more
- Potential shortages seen across commodity sector: [2011 Mar 23 08:30 AM] Analysts expect to see shortages of a wide variety of commodities in the next year - and investors are pricing in the possible gaps between supply and demand. Read more
- Cotton futures climb: [2011 Mar 22 03:49 PM] Wet weather in Australia helped push up cotton futures on Tuesday. Read more
- Ivory Coast cocoa war set to intensify: [2011 Mar 22 10:37 AM] Laurent Gbagbo, the internationally recognized loser of a November 2010 presidential election in the Ivory Coast who has refused to step down, is reportedly on the brink of escalating the standoff in the nation that is the world's top producer of cocoa. Read more
- Heavy rain to delay Brazil's sugar harvest: [2011 Mar 18 12:07 PM] Higher-than-average rainfall during early March is likely to delay the harvesting of sugar cane in the main growing region of Brazil. Read more
- Coffee futures climb: [2011 Mar 17 12:42 PM] Dutch coffee trader Nedcoffee states the globe's largest producer of robusta beans shipped 40,000 metric tons of the commodity during the first third of March. Read more
- Cocoa futures set to rally, analyst says: [2011 Mar 16 08:32 AM] Cocoa futures are set to rally as much as 14 percent if a disputed presidential election extends through May, according to industry analysts. Read more
- Cotton futures expected to continue rising: [2011 Mar 15 08:13 AM] Economic growth in China and India is serving as a driver for cotton demand, whose futures are expected to continue rising. Read more
- Cocoa ban to remain in place through March in Ivory Coast: [2011 Mar 14 01:01 PM] The internationally recognized winner of a disputed presidential election in the nation that produces the world's biggest supply of cocoa prolonged a ban on exports of the commodity through the rest two-plus weeks. Read more
- Cocoa futures impacted by ongoing election dispute in Ivory Coast: [2011 Mar 04 12:55 PM] Cocoa futures touched their highest prices since the late 1970s on Friday amidst heightening political violence from a disputed presidential election in the Ivory Coast, which is the globe's top producer of the commodity. Read more
- Cotton futures gain as demand trumps supply: [2011 Mar 04 10:29 AM] Demand for cotton is expected to trump supplies of the soft commodity, which pushed up cotton futures to record highs. Read more
- South Africa wool industry to be harmed by foot-and-mouth virus outbreak: [2011 Mar 02 02:32 PM] An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in South Africa is expected to harm the nation's wool industry. Read more
- Cotton futures climb amidst Chinese demand: [2011 Mar 01 01:18 PM] Cotton futures increased beyond the maximum allowed as a fierce Chinese demand for the soft commodity fueled speculation that world supplies cannot accommodate the needs of the globe's biggest consumer. Read more
