Coffee bean trading LIFFE3 monthly coffee futures suffered a setback

ICE raw sugar futures fell to a two-and-a-half-week low on Friday as investors further expected that excess inventories would not be digested as quickly as previously thought. Arabica coffee futures rose today, but fell for the fifth month in a row. Cocoa changed from a decline to a rise due to technical buying after falling to an one-year low. March raw sugar futures closed down 0.06 cents, or 0.4%, at 14.79 cents per pound.