Vietnam Coffee-Prices up, stock down, buyers away
* Discounts widen to $120-$145 a tonne
* Buying demand seen low
* Rainy season to end as usual
By Ho Binh Minh
HANOI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Coffee prices rose in Vietnam in line with higher world prices and after a 2-percent devaluation of the domestic currency against the dollar, but slow demand kept deals limited, traders said on Tuesday.
A kg of robusta beans rose to 30,200-30,500 dong ($1.55-$1.57) in the top coffee growing province of Daklak on Tuesday, from around 30,000 dong a week ago, with domestic agents seen selling to exporters to take profit, traders said.
HANOI, July 26 (Reuters) - Vietnam's coffee exports this
month surged almost 70 percent from the same month last year to
an estimated 90,000 tonnes, or 1.5 million bags, the government
said on Monday
* Stocks seen at 10-20 pct of output -traders
* Rains help trees in producing region
By Ho Binh Minh
DALAT, Vietnam, July 20 (Reuters) - Vietnam coffee stocks have thinned in the past two weeks on good international quotes, leaving between 10-20 percent of the country's spring harvest in warehouses and few sellers as prices dip, traders said.
"Stocks held by farmers are very thin while most of those who now hold beans have good financial stance, so they don't rush to sell," said a dealer in the central highland province of Lam Dong, Vietnam's second-largest coffee growing region after Daklak.
* Exporters selling beans bought for stockpiling -traders
* July shipments may dip to 80,000 tonnes
By Ho Binh Minh
HANOI, July 13 (Reuters) - Physical coffee trading slowed in Vietnam this week as exporters had already unloaded a major part of remaining stocks since late June, taking advantage of high international prices, traders said on Tuesday.