This is a series of CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor to the south of France Paradise.

I'm in Constable writing for Wall Street, journal Barons and other distinguished publications reporting to us on the commodities,

energy and electricity, but especially the commodities that are said to be in shortage for these next months.

That would be the middle class commodities of orange juice, cocoa, chocolate, and coffee.

So I'm in a very good day to you.

Of course we're concerned about protecting coffee and chocolate and orange juice.

How else would a Frenchman or an American celebrate the morning reading the news and going,

oh, it happened again so Simon is there

been any significant movement of those three bourgeois commodities good day to

you Simon good day to you, John.

Let's start with Coco, because that's the chocolate question, which as you rightly say, you do need a

bit of chocolate to cheer you up sometimes.

It's now around about $8,000 a ton. That's not much different than it was

last week, but it is down from the over 12,000 in April.

So it has come down a bit and that may filter through

to what you pay in the shops sooner or later.

But in the shorter term, it really has moved sideways we've got orange juice

really not moving much at all for $34 a pound for orange juice on the exchanges and coffee at $2.26 a pound. Again, with all of these things, you will not be paying that. You'll be paying more when it gets into the shops because these are wholesale prices when you have to buy an absolute load of the commodity itself and then get it processed and put on the shelves.

Anyway, so they're pretty much sideways at the moment, which is better than it going back up again.

And we go to the climate.

It's cool and sunny here in New England.

How is it in the south of France?

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