date:Jan 17, 2014
futures, while offers were on a par with Liffe. Last week, the beans were offered at discounts of $25 to $30 a tonne to futures.
Higher-quality robustas usually purchased by Nestle , the world's biggest food group, were traded at premiums of $25, according to dealers.
The crop in Vietnam is forecast to have yielded up to 29 million 60-kilogram bags, based on traders' estimates, up from around 25 million bags in the 2012/2013 season that ended in September.
March robustas on Liffe, which ofte