Friday, June 17, 2011

Brotherhood of the Bean

Brotherhood of the Bean

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Sip, Spit, Grade: Coffee Experts Crown Colombia’s Best Beans

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 01:00 AM PDT

It's springtime in Colombia, and coffee experts from every part of the globe have convened in Santa Marta, a small city on the Caribbean coast. It is time to award the coffee industry's most prestigious prize.

Commodities Roundup: COFFEE – Recovering Columbian Production could be Boon to Call Sellers

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 01:00 AM PDT

The Coffee market reached its highest price levels in 14 years in early 2011. And while the price rally was supported both by underlying fundamentals and macroeconomic influences, those very same forces may now be ever so gradually shifting away from the bulls . Nonetheless, there is still plenty of hefty premiums left in the call options. If you are an option seller looking for what could be …

Coffee Break: Growing labor force causes increase in unemployment – Memphis Commercial Appeal

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:06 PM PDT

Coffee Break: Growing labor force causes increase in unemployment
Memphis Commercial Appeal
The small increase results from "significant growth in the labor force" because "workers are entering the labor force faster than the economy is creating jobs," Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development Karla Davis said Thursday.

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Grande homophobic charge leveled at Long Island Starbucks; woman says gay … – New York Daily News

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:30 PM PDT


New York Daily News
Grande homophobic charge leveled at Long Island Starbucks; woman says gay
New York Daily News
The Starbucks Coffee Co., responding to an open letter posted on the web by a Long Island customer, is investigating her claim that a gay employee was publicly pilloried and forced to quit. "We are disheartened by the allegations reported in an East
Starbucks in Long Island Accused of Homophobic IncidentVillage Voice (blog)
Starbucks Probes Confrontation At Centereach Store Which Apparently Led To Gay CBS New York
New York Starbucks staff accused of mistreating gay employeePinkNews.co.uk
Pink Paper
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Cocoa Falls Most in Six Weeks as World Output Tops Demand; Coffee Declines – Bloomberg

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:37 PM PDT

Cocoa Falls Most in Six Weeks as World Output Tops Demand; Coffee Declines
Bloomberg
Coffee also declined. There may be a global cocoa surplus of 156000 metric tons in the season that ends in September, according to INTL Hencorp Futures LLC. Prices of the beans will drop because of record production in Africa, the world's largest

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Mitt Romney meets with job-seekers at Tampa coffee shop – Tampabay.com

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:04 AM PDT


New York Times (blog)
Mitt Romney meets with job-seekers at Tampa coffee shop
Tampabay.com
TAMPA — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met with some job-seekers and small-business owners at a coffee shop about a mile from where the Republican National Convention will convene next year. About 50 people jammed into Buddy Brew Coffee
Romney: 'I'm Also Unemployed'New York Times (blog)
Romney in Tampa, Sarasota todayMyFox Tampa Bay
Romney talking economy in Tampa on ThursdayTbo.com

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Cocoa Falls Most in Four Weeks as Supply Increases; Sugar, Coffee Decline – Bloomberg

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:07 AM PDT

Cocoa Falls Most in Four Weeks as Supply Increases; Sugar, Coffee Decline
Bloomberg
Sugar and coffee also declined. There may be a global cocoa surplus of 156000 metric tons in the season that ends in September, according to INTL Hencorp Futures LLC. Prices of the beans will drop because of record production in Africa,
SOFTS-Coffee and cocoa tumble as euro debt crisis bitesForexyard

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