At midday closing, most domestic futures contracts rose, with palladium up nearly 6%, coking coal, platinum, and silver up over 3%, and lithium carbonate, tin, apples, and live hogs up over 2%. On the downside, SC crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fell over 5%, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and fuel oil fell over 4%, propylene fell nearly 2%, and polypropylene monthly average, polypropylene, and container shipping to Europe fell over 1%.