As of the 23:00 close, China's most-active futures contracts were mixed: PTA
fell more than 2%; bottle-grade PET chips and short-fiber (PSF) fell about 2%;
p-xylene (PX), low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) and fuel oil fell over 1%; caustic soda
fell nearly 1%; synthetic rubber rose over 1%; plastics and soybean meal rose
about 1%.