
December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ25) on Monday closed up +243 (+3.12%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25) did not trade as markets in the UK were closed for a bank holiday.
Cocoa prices rallied sharply on Monday due to concern that cold and dry weather across West Africa's cocoa-producing regions is slowing down plant development in the Ivory Coast and proliferating black pod disease in Ghana and Nigeria.