For the people disagreeing with me wheres some hot facts:
"It should be noted that due to the presence of the Portuguese at Ternate, the flow of cloves from the northern Moluccas to Banda and Ambon was considerably reduced. Now, the Portuguese carried it directly to Malacca and, from there, distributed it to the consumer markets further afield. But, as strange as it may seem, the monopoly of the clove trade finished in a loss for the Portuguese Crown! The greed of the Captains, knights and soldiers that went to Ternate was so great that they acquired cloves by a price much above that stipulated. During more than five years the fortress’s factor was not able to buy a single bale of cloves! As a result, the cloves that were bought at Malacca to be sent to India and thereafter to Lisbon finished costing four times more than when they had been sold by the Javanese merchants! Regarding the inability of the Portuguese knights and soldiers to trade in the sophisticated Asian markets, João de Barros (A distinguished Portuguese chronicler) makes this delicious comment in the book V of his «Décadas»: «And as Gentiles and Moors of the East, in matters of buying and selling are the most fine and sagacious men in the world, calm and cold in concealing their desires and interests, that nobody can find out, always in the deeds of trade are superior to us, as we in those of war are superior to them»."
Source: Saturnino Monteiro Portuguese Sea battles Volume 2.
Facts. You gotta love them.