SOFTS-Robusta coffee dips to one-month low, cocoa also falls

Reuters
05-23
SOFTS-Robusta coffee dips to one-month low, cocoa also falls

Adds comments on coffee, cocoa; updates prices to settlement

NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - Robusta coffee futures on ICE fell to a one-month low on Thursday as harvests in Indonesia and Brazil boosted supplies, while cocoa and sugar prices were also lower.

COFFEE

* Robusta coffee LRCc2 futures settled down $116, or 2.4%, at $4,787 a metric ton after slipping to a one-month low of $4,769.

* Dealers noted robusta coffee harvests in both Brazil and Indonesia were gathering pace.

* "Brazil and Indonesia have both started harvesting, more supplies will come, although the beans are not abundant yet," one trader based in the top robusta producer Vietnam said.

* Exchange stocks have also begun to climb, standing at 54,250 metric tons, as of May 21, up from 42,250 tons at the end of April and 46,200 tons a year ago.

* Arabica coffee KCc1 fell 2.6% at $3.6075 per lb after touching a one-month low of $3.5920 per lb.

* Coffee retail sales in Brazil, the world's second-largest consumer after the United States, fell 5% so far this year due to high prices, industry group ABIC said.

COCOA

* New York cocoa CCc1 ​​settled down $441, or 4.1%, to $10,278 a ton.

* Dealers said the market was under pressure from profit-taking after climbing sharply earlier this month and peaking at a 3-1/2-month high of $11,280 on Tuesday.

* They noted that rains in Ivory Coast could improve production ahead.

* Analysts at TD Securities said chocolate companies Hershey and Mondelez will probably have to raise prices again in coming months as cocoa costs remain elevated.

* London cocoa LCCc1 fell 4.7% to 7,099 pounds per ton.

SUGAR

* Raw sugar SBc1 ​​settled down 0.3 cent, or 1.7%, at 17.40 cents per lb, weighed by weakness in energy markets and a potential increase in output in the 2025/26 season.

* "Anticipated increases in 2025/26 sugar production from major producers such as India, Thailand and Brazil are likely to put downward pressure on prices and squeeze profit margins for sugar millers," analyst Kian Pang Tan of LSEG Data & Analytics said.

* Sugar prices saw a gradual decline following largely bearish estimates released during New York Sugar Week last week, although some experts believe the market is not pricing in potential risks.

* White sugar LSUc1 fell 1.9% at $488.10 a ton.

(Reporting by Nigel Hunt and Marcelo Teixeira; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and Vijay Kishore)

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