Robusta coffee comes off record high, arabica slips from 2-1/2 year peak
LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Robusta coffee futures on ICE fell on Wednesday, coming off a record high set in the previous session, on supply woes in Vietnam, while arabica came off a 2-1/2 year peak.
COFFEE
* September robusta coffee LRCc2 fell 1.8% to $4,553 per metric ton at 1040 GMT, after setting a record high of $4,667 on Tuesday.
* Dealers remained concerned about dry conditions overall this year in top producer Vietnam, despite the return of rains in the first 10 days of July.
* They also said that there is very little coffee inventory left in Vietnam's domestic market.
* Vietnam's coffee exports in the first half of this year were 893,820 metric tons, down 11.4% from a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday.
* September arabica coffee KCc2 fell 1% to $2.4740 per lb, after surging 6.6% on Tuesday and hitting its highest price in nearly two and a half years at$2.5235.
* Dealers cited ongoing concerns about dry weather in top arabica producer Brazil, smaller bean sizes and the low volume of new crops available in the Brazilian spot market.
* The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) ICE.N has raised its margin requirements for some arabica coffee futures by as much as 11.4% in a day when prices jumped more than 6%.
COCOA
* September London cocoa LCCc2 rose 1.1% to 6,783 per ton.
* Low prices and payment delays are pushing Ghana's cocoa farmers to sell to increasingly sophisticated smuggling rings, siphoning off production from border areas and raising doubt over the next season's output, growers and officials told Reuters.
* The market is awaiting second-quarter grind data for indications on whether this year's stellar price rises are curtailing demand.
* The European second-quarter grind data is due on July 11 and the North American grind on July 18.
* September New York cocoa CCc2 rose 1.6% to $8,284 a ton.
SUGAR
* October raw sugar SBc1 rose 0.6% to 19.73 per lb, having settled down 2.5% on Tuesday.
* August white sugar LSUc1, which expires next week, dipped 0.1% to $552.90 a ton,having closed down 1.2%on Tuesday.
* Europe's largest sugar producer Suedzucker SZUG.DE on Wednesday said it expects a "significant decline" during its June-to-August quarter earnings, hurt by prolonged duty-free agricultural imports from Ukraine into the EU.
Reporting by Maytaal Angel; Editing by Sohini Goswami
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