{"id":575,"date":"2010-07-12T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=575"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","slug":"real-buyers-getting-tired-of-speculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2010\/07\/12\/real-buyers-getting-tired-of-speculators\/","title":{"rendered":"Real buyers getting tired of speculators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real cocoa buyers, who are probably chocolate manufacturers, are getting tired of excessive speculation in the cocoa market; they&#8217;ve threatened to move from London to unspecified US cocoa futures exchanges if something isn&#8217;t done to improve things:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/markets\/7884272\/Secret-gold-swap-has-spooked-the-market.html\">Telegraph Article<\/a><br \/>\n(Third section, after Gold movements and Shipping rates)<\/p>\n<p>I suppose speculation is good if it balances demand and evens out prices, but bad if the end customers feel that they are being cheated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/markets\/7895242\/Mystery-trader-buys-all-Europes-cocoa.html\">Mystery trader buys all Europe&#8217;s cocoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder people are annoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real cocoa buyers, who are probably chocolate manufacturers, are getting tired of excessive speculation in the cocoa market; they&#8217;ve threatened to move from London to unspecified US cocoa futures exchanges if something isn&#8217;t done to improve things: Telegraph Article (Third section, after Gold movements and Shipping rates) I suppose speculation is good if it balances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}