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Rich Asplund

Cocoa Prices Skyrocket to a New All-Time High on Supply Woes

May ICE NY cocoa (CCK24) this morning is up +397 (+4.07%), and May ICE London cocoa #7 (CAK24) is not trading with markets in Europe closed for the Easter Monday holiday.

Cocoa prices today soared to a new all-time high.  Concern about shrinking global cocoa supplies continues to push cocoa prices higher.  Ghana's Cocoa Board (Cocobod) said last Monday that Ghana's 2023/24 cocoa harvest will be only 422,500 MMT to 425,000 MT, half the country's initial forecast and a 22-year low, as extreme weather and disease decimated the cocoa crop.

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