At midday close, China’s front-month futures were mostly lower. LPG, plastics and propylene fell over 3%; Shanghai tin, eggs and benzene slipped nearly 3%; container freight Europe route, polypropylene, soda ash and rapeseed oil dropped more than 2%. On the upside, apples gained over 5% and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) rose over 4%; coke, lithium carbonate, red dates and Shanghai nickel advanced more than 2%; coking coal, fuel oil and caustic soda were up over 1%.

China coke front-month futures rose over 3% to 1,947.5 yuan/ton.

China National Supercomputing Internet launched a promotion to lower initial AI-for-Science deployment costs: users who download the latest client through Nov 30 get access to the flagship model with unlimited tokens and unrestricted AI calls. From Nov 9 new user registrations receive a 100 million-token credit for scientific-computing agent applications, and a flash sale will offer a 50 million-token package for 0.1 yuan.