To prepare the cocoa cake with chocolate ganache, add the room temperature softened butter cut into pieces (1) along with the sugar (2) in a stand mixer with whisks. Slice the vanilla bean lengthwise ...

After a 24.04% gain in 2023, the soft commodities composite fell 2.79% in Q2 and was 26.76% higher than the 2023 closing level. Cocoa and cotton led the way in the downside in Q2, with over 20% price ...

In recent years, purchasing managers indexes have become important indicators of where the global economy might be heading. But in the current slowdown, where small businesses were some of the hardest ...

Performance across agricultural futures has been highly uneven in the past year, with grains relatively resilient compared with sharp losses in cocoa and sugar (SB1:COM). The divergence reflects ...