At the midday close, China’s main futures contracts were mostly higher: Shanghai
crude oil (SC) rose over 5%, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and fuel oil near 5%,
palladium up over 4%, Shanghai silver almost 4%, platinum over 3% and p-xylene
nearly 3%. Lagging contracts included soybean oil, live hogs, caustic soda,
manganese-silicon and iron ore, each down more than 1%, while Shanghai lead
slipped about 1%.