Arabica futures are now at a 13 - year high.
That said, anybody attempting to speculate on the short side of coffee should respect the fact that
the Arabica futures traded on the ICE exchange in New York currently have the largest speculative short position seen in over a year.
Not exact matches
As mentioned, when we talk about coffee
futures we are talking about
arabica coffee.
Agricultural contracts traded include: US and UK - based softs contracts: ICE U.S. Coffee «C»
Arabica, which is the world's largest coffee
futures contract, Robusta Coffee, Cotton No. 2, World Cotton, Cocoa,, Frozen Concentrated Orange juice, ICE Sugar No. 11, ICE Sugar No. 16 and White Sugar.
There are two main types of coffee:
arabica and robusta, with
arabica being the most popular type and the one used in coffee
futures contract.
According to Bloomberg,
Arabica coffee
futures rose 61 % in Q1 2014 which is the largest quarterly gain since 1997.
The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous
Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica): Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Prio
Arabica Coffee (Coffea
arabica): Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Prio
arabica): Predicting
Future Trends and Identifying Priorities.
Kona
futures contracts for Grade 3 washed
arabicas are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange under ticker symbol KC, with contract deliveries occurring every year in March, May, July, September, and December.
that they used ecological models to estimate
future changes in the distribution of
arabica coffee plants and 39 species of coffee - pollinating bee in the world's largest coffee - growing region.
Researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA that they used ecological models to estimate
future changes in the distribution of
arabica coffee plants and 39 species of coffee - pollinating bee in the world's largest coffee - growing region.