
March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) Tuesday closed up +417 (+4.29%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) closed up +261 (+3.35%).
Cocoa prices rallied sharply on Tuesday on insufficient rain in West Africa. Cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's two biggest cocoa-producing countries, said rain over the past two weeks has been insufficient for tree regeneration and flowering.