Coffee
ICE: Where the benchmark price is determined
With supplies originating in the tropics and consumption throughout the world, the global coffee trade for Arabica and Robusta varieties relies on the deep liquidity of our markets to manage price risk and volatility.
Trading coffee
Coffee futures were introduced on ICE in 1986, and serves as the exclusive global market for coffee futures and options.
Futures and options are used by both the domestic and global coffee industries to price and hedge transactions. The ICE Coffee “C” contract is the benchmark for world coffee prices.
The contract's depth of liquidity have made it a preferred market for commodity trading participants seeking to hedge or gain exposure to the price of coffee.
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