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Recent news articles discuss coffee hitting multi-year highs. Poor weather in major producing countries like Brazil
and Columbia, surging global demand, and speculative buying has fueled the price movement in coffee. Below you can find
links to articles in the news that discuss market fundamentals that could potentially affect the price coffee. Before you start investing in the coffee
commodities market you should do your own research.
1. Bloomberg.com "Colombia's Coffee Crop May Be Below 7 Million Bags, Volcafe Says" April 20, 2012 Coffee
production in Colombia, the world's second-biggest arabica grower, may be less than 7 million bags in the current season because
of rainstorms, said Volcaf.
2. Bloomberg.com “Brazilian Coffee Prices Tumble as Producers Sell, Brokers Say” February 3, 2012
Coffee prices in Brazil, the world’s largest producer, tumbled this week as growers
sold after holding onto beans in a bid to boost prices, according to brokers Flavour Coffee and Cazarini Trading Co.
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Bloomberg.com "Coffee Falls on Signs Global Supply to Gain; Sugar, Cocoa Rise" January 17, 2012 Coffee futures
fell to a one-week low in New York on signs that global production will increase. The worldwide coffee market may have
a surplus in the season starting in October as output expands in Brazil. Global production will be 132.4 million bags
in the current season, up 3 percent from a December forecast.
4. Bloomberg.com "Coffee Supply
Crunch Spurring Rebound After Folgers Price Cut: Commodities" November 23, 2011 Coffee’s biggest slump in three years may be ending as weather
damages crops from Colombia to Indonesia, reducing U.S. inventories to the lowest since 2000 just as Kraft Foods Inc. and
J.M. Smucker Co. cut prices.
5. Reuters.com "Investors Bail on Coffee" June 20, 2011. Arabica coffee
futures hit a 4-1/2 month low and robustas also slid to a 4-month low Monday due to investor liquidation. New York’s
September arabica futures declined 4.00 cents to trade at $2.485 per lb.
6. Reuters.com “Coffee price rally not sustainable - Starbucks CEO”
April 28, 2011 The rally in coffee prices will not last long,
Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz said on Thursday, one day after the world's largest coffee chain warned that
higher costs could cut earnings. 7. BusinessWeek.com “Illycaffe CEO Sees
Coffee Up to 50% Overvalued on ‘Bubble’” March 17, 2011 Coffee in
New York is as much as 50 percent overvalued as speculators drive up futures prices, helping inflate a global commodities
“bubble,” Illycaffe SpA Chief Executive Officer Andrea Illy said. 8. Bloomberg.com, "Coffee Jumps to Highest
Since 1997 as Demand Boosts Starbucks" February 18, 2011 Coffee extended a rally to the highest since 1997 on signs that global
demand will outstrip production as investors snapped up shares of U.S. retailers including Starbucks Corp. in a bet that sales
will increase.
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