commodity prices
Stories tagged “commodity prices”
Madagascar vanilla prices fall to a decade low
A record harvest of more than 4,500 tonnes pushes wholesale vanilla prices down to a fraction of their 2018 peak.
Nairobi Coffee Exchange trade jumps 27% in a week
Kenya's coffee auction moved a quarter more volume in a single week, reversing months of falling prices and pointing to a stronger year for growers.
Ghana cocoa price hike of 6% would widen gap with Ivory Coast
The proposal still needs the finance minister's signature, and it lands as Ivory Coast holds its own price at 1,200 CFA francs a kilo, three months after both promised to align.
Olive oil prices sit low as Spain's next crop wobbles
Extra virgin is trading around four euros a kilo at origin while early field data points to a sharp fall in flowering fertility for the 2026/27 harvest.
Arabica coffee prices fall 10% in a month as Brazil catches up
The contract closed at 292.9 cents a pound on 4 September, down more than a tenth in thirty days, with a record global crop forecast for the coming season.
Cocoa crop forecasts fall across Ivory Coast and Ghana
The Ivorian main harvest opens this month with early surveys pointing to 1.8 million tonnes, down about 18%, while Ghana's regulator has cut its own range by a third.
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