At the morning open, China's commodity-futures main contracts were mostly lower.
Coking coal fell over 2%, coke nearly 2%. Low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), fuel oil,
Shanghai crude (SC), soda ash, LPG, benzene, eggs, pulp and styrene were down
more than 1%. On the upside, palladium rose over 3%; SHFE tin and platinum
gained more than 2%; SHFE silver climbed about 2%; bottle-grade PET chips and
red dates were up over 1%.