
Dec arabica coffee (KCZ23) on Thursday closed up +4.45 (+2.55%), and Jan ICE robusta coffee (RMF24) closed up +24 (+1.00%).
Coffee prices Thursday extended this week's rally, with arabica posting a fresh 4-1/2 month high and robusta climbing to a 2-week high. Shrinking ICE coffee inventories are supporting coffee prices. ICE-monitored arabica coffee inventories Thursday fell to a 24-year low of 303,235 bags. Meanwhile, ICE-monitored robusta coffee inventories Thursday were at 4,002 lots, modestly above the record low of 3,374 lots posted on August 31.