Also, cocoa investments may not be as liquid as other commodities markets, such as those for oil or gold. That means it can be harder to sell a losing position or more difficult to buy into the ...

Issouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images) The price of cocoa has been hitting all-time highs this year as bad weather hurts crops. Institutional investors can buy cocoa futures to bet on cocoa ...

a cocoa buyer and a member of the Union of Traders of Agricultural Products in Congo. Unwary buyers risk being stopped by police. But checks are lax in a country where corruption is endemic ...

Here, The State flexes its full muscle and enjoys an almost monopoly over the marketing and export of cocoa [PNDC Law 81, ...

The government has also approved a review of the buyers’ margin to GH¢2,980.00 per tonne for the rest of the 2023/24 cocoa season. This increase is expected to cushion the LBCs against the ...

Surging cocoa prices have hit Hershey—hard. But prices won’t stay high forever. It’s time to buy the chocolate maker’s beaten-up stock. Shares of Hershey have dropped 23% over the past 12 ...

and Systematica had tried to get coffee to mimic the incredible rally of cocoa, which is up 80% in the year to date, but funds grew too long, and the market ran out of buyers and crashed ...

"ICE is not providing an orderly market for buyers and sellers," said Brannigan, noting that the cocoa futures market is no longer providing price transparency or helping companies to hedge risks.