At the morning close, China's main futures contracts were mixed with more
advances than declines. Platinum rose over 7%, palladium over 6%, Shanghai
silver over 5%, urea over 4%, coking coal about 3%, and Shanghai lead and coke
over 2%. On the downside, container-shipping Europe-route futures fell more than
9%, Shanghai crude (SC) dropped over 6%, ethylene glycol, benzene and styrene
(EB) fell over 5%, bottle-grade PET chip was nearly 5% lower, and p-xylene and
LPG were down more than 4%.
