An official June advisory, with a 63% chance of a very strong event, pushes traders to front-run dry-season risk in West Africa and Southeast Asia
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NOAA's June advisory puts a 63% chance of a very strong El Niño by November-January — potentially among the largest since 1950. Markets are front-running it: cocoa hit a 3.5-month high on West African dryness risk, with maize, robusta coffee and sugar exposed across the tropics. Impact depends on intensity, and prior-season stocks may blunt it. Watch the November peak and southern-Africa rainfall.
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