Remember when CO2 was going to cause coffee to go extinct? Now global output has exceeded demand for a fourth year, prices are getting “crushed”, and in Brazil “there isn’t enough space to store it all”

Remember when CO2 was going to cause coffee to go extinct? Now global output has exceeded demand for a fourth year, prices are getting “crushed”, and in Brazil “there isn’t enough space to store it all”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/remember-when-co2-was-going-to-cause.html

Coffee Crushed as Slumping Real Spurs Brazil Sales – BloombergWith global output exceeding demand for a fourth year, accelerating sales will drive prices down 11 percent to $1.08 a pound by Dec. 31, according to the median of 18 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.“The lower real will most certainly help exports, making Brazil a much more aggressive seller,” said Rasmus Wolthers, a trader at Wolthers & Associates, a brokerage in Santos, Brazil. “There’s a lot of coffee in Brazil, and there isn’t enough space to store it all, so producers will have to sell. I expect to see much more aggressive sales offers.”…Arabica, the most-consumed coffee, tumbled 61 percent on ICE Futures U.S. in New York since reaching a 14-year high in May 2011

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