Schandalig:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10682433
Hedge fund manager Anthony Ward has cornered a large piece of the world's cocoa market after buying 240,000 tonnes of cocoa beans, reports suggest.
The £650m ($992m) investment buys Mr Ward enough cocoa to make more than five billion small chocolate bars, the reports say.
The investment was reportedly made by Mr Ward's hedge fund Armajaro, which would not confirm or deny the reports.
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The author of its report, Tim Jones, told Today Mr Ward's cocoa investment represented the type of market speculation his group wanted to see curbed.
He said: "The fact that he's taken delivery is something more unusual, but we see this speculation all the time in food markets, in coffee, in wheat, and this has real impacts on people across the world.
"To have speculators pushing up prices, causing changes, causes big problems for farmers and increases poverty. In 2008 it was one of the reasons why hundreds of millions more people were pushed into hunger."
Mr Jones said
artificially high prices could lead farmers to grow the wrong crops, only to make a loss when withheld supplies were released to the market causing prices to fall.
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Dit is moord met voorbedachte rade. Voor mij mag de doodstraf terug ingevoerd worden, want dat soort speculanten zijn echt massamoordenaars.
Wees maar eens een boer in Ivoorkust. En dan nog te horen krijgen dat ge lui en dom zijt. Terwijl internationale commodity-speculanten de ware oorzaak van uw armoede zijn.