Is it time to short cocoa?
It’s probably a sweet time for speculators to punt on falling cocoa prices
You might have noticed that your chocolate bars are smaller than they used to be. For example, Swiss chocolatier Nestlé cut the weight of its fun-sized Kit Kats by a fifth. They’re now just 14g each. Shrinkflation, a portmanteau of shrink and inflation, where companies reduce the size of products instead of increasing the price, has gripped the chocolat…