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Cocoa Prices Surge on Ebola Fears
Wall Street Journal ^ | By Alexandra Wexler and Sara Jerving

Posted on 09/19/2014 10:29:40 PM PDT by Morgana

The deadly Ebola virus spreading through West Africa is sparking fears in the market that supplies of cocoa, one of the region's top exports, could be disrupted.

Prices for the key chocolate ingredient have surged 6.3% this week, settling just shy of the highest level in more than three years on mounting concerns that the outbreak will reach the Ivory Coast or Ghana, which produce about 60% of the world's cocoa. No cases have been reported in either country. But Ivory Coast shares a poorly policed border with Liberia and Guinea, two of the countries hardest hit by Ebola.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cocoa; ebola
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OH CRAP! NO HERSEY BARS!
1 posted on 09/19/2014 10:29:40 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Smokin' Joe; null and void

No Chocolate ping!!


2 posted on 09/19/2014 10:31:05 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Remember that chocolate bars and blocks have an OK shelf life.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 10:32:26 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Morgana

Chocolate rations to be cut?
O the Hugh manatee!


4 posted on 09/19/2014 10:35:08 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice; Slings and Arrows

Yes Mooochelle will be cutting them due to Ebola!


5 posted on 09/19/2014 10:36:53 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

No hot cocoa this winter for the Americanistas. Why? Because of Obama’s “home country”.


6 posted on 09/19/2014 10:38:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: Morgana

This is getting serious!!!

If chocolate isn’t available, there will be rampaging in the street. Women on unrestrained PMS. Zombies craving brains because there is no chocolate.


7 posted on 09/19/2014 10:38:51 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Morgana; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
This sh!t just got real...

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

8 posted on 09/19/2014 10:40:03 PM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: Morgana

They will have to pry my Baby Ruth bar from my dead, sticky fingers.


9 posted on 09/19/2014 10:46:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Morgana

NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE!


10 posted on 09/19/2014 10:54:55 PM PDT by Argus
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To: tumblindice

Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!


11 posted on 09/19/2014 10:55:32 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

12 posted on 09/19/2014 11:10:09 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: DannyTN

This is certainly a national security issue! /s

It is my understanding that the only place to possibly grow cocoa in the U.S. is southern Florida. Mexico and South America are other options.

Paging Rick Scott and Adam Putnam: Florida also has the sugar cane and dairy. Florida can set up a complete vertical processing and manufacturing facility for chocolate candy.

This will bring manufacturing jobs and tourism-related jobs. (plant tours of course!)


13 posted on 09/19/2014 11:10:43 PM PDT by ruralvoter
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To: Morgana

Oh noes, we might run out of ebola chocolates! No ebola for you!

“If you like your ebola, you can keep your ebola!”
_Barrack Obola


14 posted on 09/19/2014 11:50:55 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Morgana

Time to stockpile.


15 posted on 09/20/2014 12:24:39 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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To: Morgana

Glad I stocked up on Cocoa Powder, and powdered chocolate milk last year. Might add some more candy and cocoa powder to the stash.

While a little chocolate is great now and then, what I really have to have is coffee! I have a stash of that too, only it’s about double the amount.


16 posted on 09/20/2014 12:59:37 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Morgana

When it affects the grape fermentation market I’ll really get pissed.


17 posted on 09/20/2014 4:52:36 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Morgana

Oh, this *is* serious.

People dying of Ebola by the dozen every day, meh.

A threat to the chocolate supply, better bring out the guns!

Isn’t coffee grown in that same area?

This Ebola thing is getting bad.

(Disclaimer: I really do think Ebola is a serious situation for the people in that area.)


18 posted on 09/20/2014 6:35:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Morgana

Stockpiling as never before! ;)


19 posted on 09/20/2014 7:28:43 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Morgana

Yikes! No Hershey’s dark chocolate kisses.

Favorite, Dark Chocolate? Milk chocolate?


20 posted on 09/20/2014 11:00:47 AM PDT by V K Lee
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