Cocoa Up on Fund Buying, Ivorian Tensions
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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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More investors are trading bean commerce for e-commerce.
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The pork producer fattens up on higher hog prices.
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Unrest in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, stops shipments from the country's two ports despite a lull in fighting.
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Solid sales at Richemont helped European  shares stay in positive territory at midday on Thursday but  higher oil prices capped buying, amid worries that Hurricane  Ivan could damage oil facilities in the crude-rich Gulf of  Mexico.
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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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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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Prices for arabica coffee rallied 14  percent on Monday chased higher by commodity funds as concerns  about a decline in the number of bags in U.S. warehouses were  reinforced by an earthquake in major grower Colombia.
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Voters in Ghana have turned out in droves to cast ballots in a presidential poll in the world&#39;s number two cocoa grower, seen as a race between incumbent John Kufuor and arch-rival John Atta Mills.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Noah Adams speaks with NPR&#39;s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about the growing unrest in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony.
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Despite the reopening of Ivory Coast ports that ship 40 percent of the world&#39;s cocoa, unrest and fears of more violent upheaval are still threatening supplies from the world&#39;s top producer, traders said Monday.
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World cocoa prices rose from intraday lows, but exports from the Ivory Coast, the key global supplier, remain on hold after mob violence and military clashes paralyze business in the West African country, traders said on Tuesday.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast  - Rebels in the north of  Ivory Coast pledged to continue their fight to oust President  Laurent Gbagbo as African leaders scrambled on Wednesday to  find a plan to prevent all-out war in the world's top cocoa  grower.
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PARIS, Nov 23 (IPS) - Beneath the apparent calm after the last round of  clashes the diplomatic battle in Cote d'Ivoire is getting  hotter.
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Acorda's shares zoomed up, but potential investors should be cautious.
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Shares of Alcan Inc. rose after reports of possible takeover offers from Norsk Hydro ASA and Rio Tinto Group raised expectations of a bidding war with Alcoa Inc. for the Canadian aluminum producer.
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Washington - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on forecast Wednesday a substantial jump in economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa this year and next, saying the outlook for the region was better than in years.