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Cocoa prices plummeted on Friday, with NY cocoa posting a 2-month low and London cocoa posting a 2-1/2 month low. Rain forecasts for West Africa are expected to benefit the region's cocoa crops ...

A recent plunge in cocoa prices has caught the attention of market observers, traders, and, most crucially, the economies of Ghana and Ivory Coast, two countries at the epicenter of the world's ...

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