At the morning-session close, China's most-active futures contracts were mixed
with gains outnumbering losses: fuel oil jumped over 5%; methanol and starch
rose nearly 3%; synthetic rubber, asphalt, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), coke,
coking coal and SC crude oil gained more than 2%. Shanghai silver fell over 4%;
palladium, lithium carbonate, platinum, soda ash and container-shipping
Europe-route futures declined more than 2%.
