All Your Cocoa Are Belong to Us

If you want to purchase real estate in the land of chocolate you now have to go through Anthony Ward, dubbed “Chocofinger” by the British media, who has just cornered the cocoa market.

According to The Daily Telegraph, Ward, a commodities trader for Armajaro Holdings in London, purchased 241,000 tonnes of cocoa beans last week — “the equivalent of almost the entire supply of the commodity in Liffe-registered warehouses across Europe.”