[ccmay]

What made yesterday’s trade so unusual was that the mystery buyer or buyers took physical delivery of the commodity.

There's no chocolate manufacturer in the world that could or would do that, or it would have been done in the past. It's especially unusual in the depths of the biggest recession in 80 years.

Something else, something new, is afoot. I wonder if some drug maker has discovered proof of a really important new medication that is refined from cacao. Imagine if this is the secret ingredient for a silver bullet drug for cancer, AIDS, malaria, or hepatitis C? The profits from candy bars would be trifling by comparison.

[bruinbirdman]

"Something else, something new, is afoot"

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