1.   The loss of consumption is showing up at exchange warehouses, where copper inventories are rising.

2.   Even if large amounts of silver were removed from exchange warehouses by speculators rather than industrial consumers, the outlook for silver remains positive, traders said.

3.   Silver prices fell as rising stockpiles in futures exchange warehouses eased concern that a shortage was developing.

4.   Still, coffee inventories in exchange warehouses are at a five-month low.

5.   Stockpiles in futures exchange warehouses are about half of year-ago levels.

6.   The expected rise in supplies comes at a time when plentiful crops from other Latin American growers boosted stockpiles of coffee stored in U.S. exchange warehouses.

7.   The production decline comes at a time of dwindling copper inventories held in exchange warehouses.

8.   Yet the worst rains from the storm passed to the east of New Orleans, and the exchange warehouse was undamaged, said exchange spokesman Terence Gordon.