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Coffee, Sugar Plunge, Silver Gains

Ivaylo
24 Apr, 2007
New York City

    Arabica coffee futures slipped to nine-month lows on the New York Board of Trade Monday, in spite of a forecast of a small Brazilian crop. Raw sugar in foreign ports slid to 21-month lows as funds sold, while gold and silver futures finished mixed, with neither making a big move since the dollar was steady. Copper bounced from early weakness to finish with a modest gain.

[R]5:00AM Arabica coffee and raw sugar dip Monday, gold and silver finish mixed.[/R]
The May Arabica coffee contract closed down 1.35 cents at $1.0635 a pound, with July off 1.25 cents at $1.0940. The May raw sugar contract settled down 0.19 cent at 9.33 cents a pound, with July off 0.25 cent at 9.24 cents.

June gold fell $1.60 to $694.20 a troy ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while May silver gained 9.5 cents to $14.05 an ounce. July platinum shed $9.50 to $1,331.70 an ounce, while June palladium lost 85 cents to $387.40 an ounce. The most-active July copper contract added 2.45 cents to settle at $3.6455 per pound.

The front-month June crude oil ended up $1.78 at $65.89 a barrel, after hitting $65.96. Front-month May gasoline settled up 5.33 cents at $2.1907 a gallon, while May heating oil closed up 6.18 cents at $1.8943 a gallon. May natural gas finished up 18.1 cents at $7.562 per million British thermal units.

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