
May ICE NY cocoa (CCK25) Wednesday closed up +791 (+9.67%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK25) closed up +469 (+7.44%).
Cocoa prices Wednesday surged to 1-month highs on signs of a weak mid-crop cocoa harvest in West Africa. According to Rabobank, late-arriving rains in the region have limited crop growth, and recent cocoa farmer surveys from the Ivory Coast and Ghana have been disappointing.