At the close of the morning session, most domestic futures contracts rose, with palladium up over 8%, platinum up over 7%, silver up over 6%, lithium carbonate up over 5%, nickel and polysilicon up nearly 5%, gold up over 4%, and coking coal up over 3%. On the downside, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), propylene, benzene, polyethylene, polypropylene, and ethylene glycol hit their daily limit down; fuel oil and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) fell over 10%, asphalt fell nearly 10%, SC crude oil fell over 9%, methanol fell nearly 8%, and synthetic rubber and paraxylene fell nearly 7%.
