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Evening Standard
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Michael Hunter

INSANE: Record cocoa prices sour the outlook for chocolate lovers beyond easter | Vintage Vibes

This year’s expensive Easter eggs could just be the start of an unwelcome trend for sweet-toothed treat-seekers, after cocoa prices melted records today. 

The beloved bean broke through a key level – trading above $10,000 (£7,900) a tonne – on world commodity markets. The price has already doubled in 2024, after poor harvests in West Africa have created a scramble for the available supply of the essential chocolate ingredient. . 

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