Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said Russian bombing on Nov. 2 killed nearly 100 people.

China A-share humanoid-robot concept stocks rallied again in the afternoon. Mosu Technology jumped straight to the daily limit; earlier Zhenghe Industrial and Maidi Technology hit limit-up. Zhaomin Technology rose over 18%. Zhaofeng, Ningbo Huaxiang, Ruidi Zhiqu, Zhongjian Technology, Zhaowei Electromechanical and Zhejiang Rongtai also advanced.

At midday close China's main futures front-month contracts were mixed. Palladium rose over 8%, platinum over 7%, Shanghai silver nearly 6%, Shanghai nickel over 5%, Shanghai gold over 4%, red dates almost 4%, and coke and lithium carbonate rose more than 3%. On the downside, LPG, PET chip, propylene, benzene, polyethylene, polypropylene, mono‑ethylene glycol (MEG) and styrene hit the daily down limit; fuel oil and low‑sulfur fuel oil (LU) fell over 10%, asphalt nearly 9%, INE crude (SC) and methanol over 7%, and p‑xylene over 6%.