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...And for dessert, there are a few elegant choices including a blood orange and yuzu sorbet with liquorice meringue, and the Marchal “Gold Bar” with chocolate ice cream....
...At every aid station I do the same thing: shove my head into a bucket of ice, put handfuls of ice into my race outfit, grab whatever food and drink is available. My legs become logs....
...ICE March sugar gained almost 3 per cent to 15.53 cents a pound, the highest since late January....
...“The concerns are that the branches may not have developed properly, impairing flower development,” said Kona Haque, head of research at commodities trader ED&F Man in London....
...ICE March sugar rose more than 3 per cent to 16.11 cents a pound....
...ICE coffee for May delivery rose on Monday as much as 7.4 per cent to $1.3715 a pound....
...“We probably have further downside,” said Kona Haque, analyst at Macquarie in London. “I’m struggling to see where the big supports are.”...
...Kona Haque at Macquarie says cocoa is the bullish agricultural bet of choice for investors at the moment....
...“Average manufacturer cover has fallen to uncomfortably low levels said Kona Haque, analyst at Macquarie....
...asked Kona Haque, analyst at Macquarie in London, adding that she struggles to see any supporting factors for the price....
...Last month, ICE September arabica coffee hit a low of $1.771 cents a pound, the lowest since September 2009. On Wednesday it was fluctuating at $1.2220 a pound....
...ICE March raw sugar prices fell to 17.77 cents a pound on Tuesday, the lowest level since August 2010....
...However, uncertainty over the global economy would continue to support robusta consumption, said Kona Haque, analyst at Macquarie in London....
...Cocoa to be settled in March has jumped as much as 14 per cent already this week on the ICE Futures US exchange – and sector watchers reckon this could just be the beginning....
...“We are looking at a weakening of La Niña now, but the damage has been done,” said Kona Haque, analyst at Macquarie Securities....
...“It’s about time,” said Kona Haque, commodity strategist at Macquarie Securities in London....
...In New York, ICE October raw sugar surged as much as 5.1 per cent to a session high of 30.40 cents. The contract later pared gains to trade up 3.3 per cent to 29.86 cents per pound....
...On Friday, the benchmark ICE March cotton contract rose 3.7 per cent to an intraday peak of $1.9455 a pound....
...Kona Haque, soft commodities analyst at Macquarie in London, says roasters are still not adequately covered and “remain a supportive factor to the rally as they keep buying on dips”....
...In New York, ICE January frozen concentrated orange juice rose to an intraday high of $1.667 per pound, up 6.3 per cent....
...ICE December Brent dropped $1.77 to $81.83 a barrel. Gold prices also moved lower after the dollar rose against the euro....
...Tight physical coffee supply has pushed Colombian prices to a 60-70 cent premium over New York prices, according to Kona Haque, soft commodities strategist at Macquarie....
...In New York, ICE September cocoa rose 3.3 per cent to $3,145 a tonne....
...ICE July cotton rose 1.41 cents to 82.72 cents a pound. Cotton has gained 8 per cent this week....
...ICE May cocoa gained 1.6 per cent to $3,232 a tonne yesterday, about $200 short of its own 31-year peak....
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