Coffee rose almost 6percentt on speculation that the world's top growers are making progress in efforts to limit exports.
Even in light of yesterday's shooting, the department said the recent figures showed it was making progress in efforts to reduce such incidents.
Reprising the role of European taskmaster for which she is often resented, Ms. Merkel made her remarks shortly after Mario Monti, the prime minister of Italy, assured an audience at an auditorium in Davos that his country was making progress in efforts to reduce its debt load and streamline its economy.
The leaders, meeting on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit meeting in Singapore, also made progress in efforts to negotiate a replacement for a key arms control treaty between the United States and Russia that is set to expire in December, administration officials said.
The leader of Greece's Socialist Party, Evangelos Venizelos, says he has made progress in efforts to form a coalition after inconclusive elections on Sunday.
The United States continues to make progress in its efforts to keep students in school, according to a new report co-authored by Robert Balfanz, a senior research scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Everyone Graduates Center.
It will take the entire MIT community working together to realize our financial goal, and to make progress in our efforts to help create a better world". Alumni and friends have responded enthusiastically to each priority area, making contributions to support work in areas ranging from human health to innovation and entrepreneurship.
The IAEA was "unable to make progress in its efforts to provide assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran", the report said.
She said: "Today's figures are excellent news for the Scottish economy and show that we are continuing to make progress in our efforts to tackle unemployment.
The two countries also have until Saturday to make progress in the effort to identify missing people from the brutal 1998-1999 war that pushed forces loyal to Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian strongman, from this region, where corners like this one are still predominantly Serb.
