$ shortage commodity get SFT.TEA > spot: $3.45/kg > stress_index: 0.48 CAUTION > updated 14:26 UTC
BRENT $84.27 ▲ TTF €31.50 ▼ OPEC_SP 3.8 mb/d ● SPR_US 372.4 Mb FAO_FFPI 121.4 ▲
Black tea auction average. Kenyan, Indian and Sri Lankan weather drives a fragmented physical market.
Black tea auction average. Kenyan, Indian and Sri Lankan weather drives a fragmented physical market. At the latest reading, Tea prints a spot of $3.45/kg — a move of ▲0.20% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲2.40% across the trailing thirty days.
The v3.2 stress index places SFT.TEA at 0.48 — a caution 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 Tea compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry SFT.TEA as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.
No active scenario currently carries Tea as an explicit input.