Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Thanks to a second year of drought in Brazil, your morning brew could be about to get tastier.

Prices of the caffeine-heavy, ashen-flavored robusta beans that are used to give a kick to coffee blends have been on a tear. Futures on the Intercontinental Exchange gained 40 percent during 2016 due to adverse weather in the crop's key producing regions of Brazil and Vietnam.