Updates costs, recasts
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – Arabica espresso futures on ICE jumped practically 5% to hit their highest in 4-1/2 years on Wednesday as traders assessed the injury executed to crops in high producer Brazil from frosts a day earlier, the second to hit the crop in a month.
COFFEE
* September arabica espresso KCc2 rose 4.5% to 177.50 by 1458 GMT, having earlier hit its highest since late 2016 at $177.55. The contract closed up practically 7% on Tuesday.
* September robusta espresso LRCc2 rose 0.7% to $1,773 a tonne, having hit a 3 12 months excessive of $1,793 on Tuesday.
* Sellers stated Brazil’s espresso crop, which continues to be flowering, might have misplaced 1-2 million baggage because of the frosts, which hit key espresso rising areas like Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo states.
* Espresso bushes are extraordinarily delicate to frost, which kill leaves, hampering manufacturing potential for the following season, whereas extreme frosts can kill the tree utterly.
SUGAR
* October uncooked sugar SBc1 rose 0.3% to 17.47 cents per lb, having closed up 2% on Tuesday.
* Whereas frosts additionally hit some sugar cane areas in Brazil, sellers stated the affected areas had already been harvested and a repeat of frosts in the identical areas couldn’t do way more injury.
* Nonetheless, high sugar producer Brazil already has a smaller cane crop this 12 months attributable to a drought and the frosts over the previous month have additional harm manufacturing.
* Sellers stated on stability, shrinking Brazilian output ought to greater than offset worries over the fast unfold of the Delta coronavirus variant, boosting sugar costs.
* October white sugar LSUc1 fell 0.1% to $448.80 per tonne, having closed up 1.2% on Tuesday.
COCOA
* September London cocoa LCCc1 rose 1.1% to 1,576 kilos per tonne, having hit its lowest in a 12 months final week.
* Cocoa stays beneath strain from this season’s document output in Ghana, the world’s second-biggest producer, regardless of some optimistic knowledge on demand restoration lately.
* September New York cocoa CCc1 rose 0.5% to $2,268 a tonne.
(Modifying by Kirsten Donovan)
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