US House passes legislation on children's online safety.

At the morning open, China's most-active futures contracts were mostly higher. Pure benzene rose more than 2%; eggs, propylene, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), live hogs and styrene (EB) gained over 1%. On the downside, SHFE nickel fell nearly 3%; platinum, SHFE silver, SHFE aluminium and SHFE gold slipped over 2%; foundry aluminium and soda ash dropped more than 1%; caustic soda and stainless steel (SS) were down about 1%.

At the close, NYMEX August light sweet crude (WTI) rose $1.52 to $70.75/bbl, up 2.2%. ICE Brent August delivery rose $1.16 to $73.15/bbl, up 1.61%.