
September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) on Friday closed up +458 (+6.30%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24) closed up +365 (+5.10%).
Cocoa prices Friday finished sharply higher, recovering most of Thursday's sharp losses. The price movement in cocoa remains highly volatile, and little news can move prices substantially. Short-covering Friday pushed prices sharply higher after ICE-monitored cocoa inventories held in US ports fell to a 3-1/3 year low of 3,218,925 bags.