By the 23:00 close, China’s most-active futures contracts were mostly higher. Asphalt rose over 3%; plastic, fuel oil, propylene and ethylene glycol (EG) gained more than 2%; low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) was up about 2%. Soda ash and coke fell over 1%; p

2026-07-13

By the 23:00 close, China’s most-active futures contracts were mostly higher. Asphalt rose over 3%; plastic, fuel oil, propylene and ethylene glycol (EG) gained more than 2%; low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) was up about 2%. Soda ash and coke fell over 1%; pulp and caustic soda declined nearly 1%.