At the morning session close, China's most-active futures contracts were mostly
lower: palladium and lithium carbonate fell over 3%, bottle-grade PET chips
nearly 3%; Shanghai nickel, stainless steel, alumina, 20# rubber, PVC and BR
rubber dropped more than 2%. On the upside, coking coal rose over 4%, coke
gained more than 2%, and rapeseed oil and logs were up over 1%.