$ shortage commodity get SFT.ARAB > spot: $2.875/lb > stress_index: 0.74 CRITICAL > updated 14:29 UTC
BRENT $72.13/b ● TTF €44.25/MWh ● OPEC_ORB n/a SPR_US 331.2 Mb ▼ FAO_FFPI 130.8 ▼
Arabica coffee (ICE), the premium bean. Brazilian frost and drought risk keep the market on edge.
Coffee Arabica is the high-altitude coffee bean variety that accounts for ~60% of global coffee output, traded on the Intercontinental Exchange in US cents per pound. Brazil and Colombia dominate supply; the EU and US dominate demand. Current spot: $2.875/lb, stress index 0.74.
Arabica coffee (ICE), the premium bean. Brazilian frost and drought risk keep the market on edge. At the latest reading, Coffee Arabica prints a spot of $2.875/lb — a move of ▼2.04% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲12.60% across the trailing thirty days.
The v3.2 stress index places SFT.ARAB at 0.74 — 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 Coffee Arabica compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry SFT.ARAB as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.
No active scenario currently carries Coffee Arabica as an explicit input.