This year’s expensive Easter eggs could just be the start of an unwelcome trend for sweet-toothed treat-seekers, after cocoa prices melted records today.
The beloved bean broke through a key level – trading above $10,000 (£7,900) a tonne – on world commodity markets. The price has already doubled in 2024, after poor harvests in West Africa have created a scramble for the available supply of the essential chocolate ingredient. .
