(Do you see the effect of the pandemic, when global shipping ground to a halt and prices went up, then came down again? At the time, people were constantly looking which ports had containers stuck in them and which countries that grow coffee had ports from which shipping was still happening.)
Efforts are on the way to create lab-grown coffee. I’ll see if I can find the news about that; I was into coffee futures for a while, but have lost track as my current circumstances are too limiting. The same goes for pharmaceutical developments etc. I can’t do my due diligence, so to speak. My research. Keep up with developments. Keep notes. Be on top of things. (I have to be free from stupid-people crap, too. It’s why they have special tracks for F1 races and don’t hold them or kart races or horse races in the middle of Paris or London. No interference from other people’s cars and bicycles.)
Here it is: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-scientists-recipe-lab-grown-coffee-creation.html
So, would that affect the price of Starbucks shares?
Naaaaaaaah.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/06/starbucks-stock-trump-coffee-tariffs/
Coffee prices can go down, then, for other parts of the world. So Luckin may get lucky (but I assume that Starbucks in China is not going to be hit by Trump’s tariffs).
Luckin was the very first stock CFD that I traded. I had no idea what I was doing, what was happening The bookkeeping scandal had just hit and the price was all over the place for a while. I kinda liked Luckin but then it went OTC (delisted in the US, at NASDAQ). Some companies have it, some don’t.
What can I say? I’m a coffee junkie… I like dealing with things that I have some affinity with (and preferrably also sufficient knowledge about). I like checking the international news first thing in the morning, too, so that is no added burden either.
