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shortage.life
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$ shortage commodity get SFT.COCO
> spot: $5,123/MT
> stress_index: 0.83 CRITICAL
> updated 14:27 UTC

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BRENT     $72.13/b 
TTF       €44.25/MWh 
OPEC_ORB  n/a
SPR_US    331.2 Mb 
FAO_FFPI  130.8 
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~/commodities/cocoa·category: soft commoditycite · /api/v1/commodities/SFT.COCO

Cocoa / SFT.COCO

soft commodity$/tupdated: 14:27 UTC
CRITICAL
SPOT · $/t$5,123/MT
Δ24H▼1.40%
Δ7D▼8.10%
Δ30D▲6.50%
STRESS · v3.20.83

[ 00 ]  $_SERIES · SFT.COCO · spot trend

SFT.COCO · $/tlast 4220
READ MODE// long-form zoneEDITORIAL · commodity analysisdesk: Markets·last revision 14:27 UTC
Commodity analysis · SFT.COCO · v3.2

Cocoa, and what the reading means.

Cocoa, a market in structural deficit after successive West African crop failures.

Desk Markets·EN · FR · ES, DE pending·sources: EIA, OPEC, IEA, FAO, USDA

What is Cocoa?

Cocoa is the raw bean for chocolate, traded on the Intercontinental Exchange in US dollars per metric tonne. Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana together produce about 60% of world supply. Current spot: $5,123/MT — a level that has held for six months after peaking near $11,000/MT in mid-2024. Stress index: 0.83.

Cocoa, a market in structural deficit after successive West African crop failures. At the latest reading, Cocoa prints a spot of $5,123/MT — a move of ▼1.40% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲6.50% across the trailing thirty days.

The v3.2 stress index places SFT.COCO at 0.83 — a critical reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.

For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Cocoa compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry SFT.COCO as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.

Frequently asked

Why has cocoa stayed expensive?
Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) has spread across the Ivorian and Ghanaian growing belts since 2017 with no broad-spectrum chemical treatment. Affected trees lose 40-60% yield within three years; replanting cycles run 4-5 years. The current crop year is the third in a row where new infections outpace replanting — a structural, not cyclical, supply contraction.
Who buys most of the world's cocoa?
The largest chocolate manufacturers — Nestlé, Mondelez, Lindt, Ferrero, Hershey — buy roughly 60% of internationally traded cocoa. Industry response to the price spike includes substitution programmes (carob, cocoa-butter equivalents), longer-term contracts with Ecuadorian and Indonesian origins, and direct trade with cooperatives outside the African concentration.
What is the current Cocoa price?
The current Cocoa spot price is $5,123/MT, refreshed in real time on shortage.life from primary institutional sources. The shortage.life v3.2 stress index reading is 0.83 — see /methodology for how the composite is computed and how the components are weighted.

[ 02 ]  $_COUNTRIES · SFT.COCO · production

[ 01 ]  $_SCENARIOS · with SFT.COCO exposure

No active scenario currently carries Cocoa as an explicit input.

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