Softs
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Coffee
Arabica trades on the New York exchange in 37,500 pound contracts with certified warehouse stocks behind delivery, while robusta t...
Cocoa
Ivory Coast and Ghana grow about 60 percent, on smallholder farms with aging trees, disease, and underinvestment, with state marke...
Sugar
Raw sugar trades 112,000 pound contracts in New York, white sugar in London, and Brazil, the top producer and exporter by far, set...
Cotton
New York trades 50,000 pound contracts deliverable against certified warehouse receipts. China and India lead production, the US i...
Orange Juice
ICE frozen concentrated orange juice trades 15,000 pound contracts in New York, the market made famous by the movie Trading Places...
Rubber
Natural rubber comes from tapping hevea trees, Thailand the top producer, with Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia following, smallho...
Palm Oil
Some 75 million tonnes yearly, over a third of all vegetable oil, come from Indonesia, the dominant producer and exporter, and Mal...
Lumber
CME random length futures trade 110,000 board feet, cash settled against a framing lumber index, and the contract went from obscur...