COFFEE
* July arabica coffee futures fell 3.75 cents or 1.3 percent to close at $2.9080 per lb.
* July rose early on thin volumes, moving back towards last week's 34-year high at $3.0250 per lb, but reversed lower on investor selling as the commodity complex fell - traders.
* Total volume at 9,492 lots, down 63 percent from Easter Monday 2010 - preliminary Thomson Reuters data.
* "I think we're down today with the stronger dollar." - James Cordier, of brokers optionsellers.com in Florida.
* While tight supplies of high-quality arabicas have underpinned prices, the market is about to enter into a seasonally low period in May - Cordier.
* Speculators in the ICE coffee market boosted their bullish bets by nearly a third in the week to April 19.
COCOA
* Key July cocoa futures settled $28 lower at $3,060 per tonne.
* Market easily reversed lower as the dollar turned higher and investors sold commodities - traders.
* Total volume was thin at about 5,201 lots, down a steep 71 percent from Easter Monday 2010 - preliminary Thomson Reuters data.
* The port of Abidjan is undamaged and open for business after Ivory Coast's post-election conflict, but trade volumes will not pick up until security and financing improve, the head of the port told Reuters.
Source : reuters
* Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara on Friday ordered soldiers
from all sides of the country's conflict to return to their barracks in an
effort to restore stability.
