By the 23:00 close, China’s front-month futures were mostly lower: monoethylene glycol (EG) fell more than 5%, bottle-grade PET chips and propylene dropped over 3%, LPG and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) slipped nearly 3%, and benzene, polypropylene and fu

2026-08-04

By the 23:00 close, China’s front-month futures were mostly lower: monoethylene glycol (EG) fell more than 5%, bottle-grade PET chips and propylene dropped over 3%, LPG and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) slipped nearly 3%, and benzene, polypropylene and fuel oil were down more than 2%. Coking coal was the exception, rising just over 1%.