[Humal]

Maybe this is a test run for something more essential, or just to show the world it can do this (buy the entire stock of a commodity and withhold it from the rest of the world).

[Jemian]

Yours is the best idea about this that I have seen.

[wiggen]

I suspect Bonds old nemesis is behind this,SPECTRE.
In all seriousness,not making fun at your comment but the boogeymen invented in fiction would seem to have found life. There’s no logical reason for such a purchase. Will the current cocoa crop be struck with a mystery blight sending prices soaring (Goldfinger seeking to irradiate the US gold stockpile)?