London Metal Exchange (LME) stocks: aluminium unchanged; copper down 1,900 tonnes; tin down 75 tonnes; zinc up 300 tonnes; nickel down 84 tonnes; lead down 600 tonnes.

Dongfeng Group deputy GM You Zheng said at the Aggregated Intelligent Industry Ecology Forum 2026 the company plans to unveil a self-developed 350 Wh/kg hybrid solid-liquid battery in October 2026, targeting mass production and vehicle fitment in Q4 2026.

Chinese bourses mixed at midday: Shanghai Composite +0.24%, Shenzhen Composite -0.06%, ChiNext -0.34%, Beijing 50 +0.35%, STAR 50 -0.60%. Turnover across Shanghai and Shenzhen CNY1.21 trillion, down CNY46.5 billion from the prior session. Breadth weak with more than 3,500 stocks falling. Grain sector extended multi-day gains—COFCO Technology posted a second straight daily limit-up and several peers hit limit-up. Coal-mining stocks rallied intraday, with Yunmei Energy, Zhengzhou Coal & Power and Dayou Energy at limit-up. Ports and shipping strengthened; Nanjing Port, China Merchants Energy Shipping and Haitong Development hit limit-up. Military-equipment names rebounded; Yaxing Anchor Chain and Hunan Tianyan hit limit-up. Media and publishing plunged, with multiple stocks at or touching limit-down, and real estate names slid—broker I Love My Home fell about 9%.