Cocoa prices down but Ivorian exports still blocked
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World cocoa prices were down on Tuesday but off the day&#39;s lows as exports remained on hold after mob violence and military clashes in Ivory Coast, the key global supplier, traders said.
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World oil prices fell about $2 a  barrel on Friday as dealers took profits from a recent rally,  but the market remained on edge as powerful Hurricane Ivan  thrashed through the Caribbean on a track toward the  energy-rich Gulf of Mexico.
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GENEVA, Jul 18 (IPS) - Several developing countries said Wednesday they  will oppose a steep down payment being demanded from them in  market access commitments for industrial goods as proposed in a  compromise draft text to revive the troubled Doha trade  negotiations.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Government warplanes and  helicopter gunships pounded rebel-held towns in northern Ivory  Coast for a second day on Friday, fueling fears of a slide into  all-out war in the world's top cocoa grower.
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French wine exports are continuing to shrink this year, confirming a six-year trend that has brought gloom to the sector, experts and industry bodies say.
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The price of crude oil ends slips back  below $50 but unease remains over tensions in Nigeria's southern region.
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Cocoa prices rose 3.5 percent on  Friday as commodity funds bought on technical signals, a  falling dollar and prospects of more political violence in  Ivory Coast, grower of 40 percent of the world's cocoa.
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Oil prices tiptoed lower on Tuesday,  marking a fourth day of losses as worries over potential supply  shortfalls ahead of winter faded and Nigerian unions called off  a strike that could have disrupted exports.
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India's annual wholesale price inflation rate fell to 7.81 percent in the year to Sept. 4 due to lower prices of oilseeds and poultry and a higher base effect, data showed on Friday.
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Cocoa traders face a volatile week as unrest in the Ivory Coast threatens to disrupt supplies from the world's biggest producer.
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LONDON : Oil prices fell back as worries about the impact of tropical storm Frances subsided. The price of benchmark Brent North Sea crude oil for delivery in October lost 11 cents to 40.
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OIL prices fell today despite new sabotage attacks on Iraqi pipelines and worries about tropical storm Frances, with the New York market closed for the Labour Day holiday.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 14 (IPS) - Caribbean governments have alleged that the  European Union is trying to prevent them from signing trade deals  with other poor countries on their own terms.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Ivory Coast rebels on  Monday vowed to repel army attacks as the U.N. Security Council  imposed an arms embargo on the world's top cocoa producer and  vowed to punish government and rebel leaders with more  sanctions next month to force them to return to the terms of a  2003 peace agreement.
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The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in December as oil import prices had the biggest decline in nearly 14 years, while first-time claims for jobless benefits fell to the lowest level in more than 4 years.
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Ivory Coast rebels vowed on Monday to repel army attacks robustly as African leaders sought to resurrect a peace process in the world's top cocoa grower and the United Nations mulled an arms embargo.
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ABENGOUROU, Ivory Coast  - Angry at graft and disorder in Ivory Coast's cocoa sector, farmer Anini Kouakou spoke out on national television earlier this year against corrupt officials he says are siphoning off farmers' cash.