加拿大美加貿易事務部長勒布朗：仍在努力敲定最終文本。

Euro area June seasonally adjusted current account and UK LME copper, aluminium and nickel stock changes through Aug. 19 will be released in 10 minutes.

At the morning-session close, China's most-active futures contracts were mixed with gains outnumbering losses: fuel oil jumped over 5%; methanol and starch rose nearly 3%; synthetic rubber, asphalt, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), coke, coking coal and SC crude oil gained more than 2%. Shanghai silver fell over 4%; palladium, lithium carbonate, platinum, soda ash and container-shipping Europe-route futures declined more than 2%.