A few weeks into the new year, the market is eagerly anticipating Q4 2022 grind results from the major reporting regions. Perhaps serving as a harbinger, the first news on this front came from Malaysia, where total cocoa beans ground during Q54 fell to [...]
A few weeks into 2021, we have seen the first grind results of Q4 2020. This figure corresponds to first quarter of the 2021 October-September crop year. Matching expectations, Malaysian grind fell a nominal 2.5 percent in Q4 2020 to 87,163 MT down slightly [...]
Cocoa futures surged nearby or above $2,800 MT to multiyear high after this week’s release of somewhat anemic Q4 grind numbers. Trade was waiting to see whether Q3’s grind numbers were a one-off or whether softness is continuing to creep into the cocoa demand. [...]
