At midday closing, most domestic futures contracts declined. Container shipping to Europe rose over 3%, while lithium carbonate, caustic soda, soybean meal, and eggs rose over 2%, and apples rose over 1%. On the downside, tin fell over 7%, silver fell over 5%, SC crude oil fell over 4%, platinum, nickel, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), and palladium fell over 3%, and propylene, fuel oil, international copper, asphalt, iron ore, and methanol fell over 2%.