At midday, China’s main onshore futures contracts were mostly higher. Container-shipping Europe route surged over 5% and ethylene glycol (EG) was up nearly 5%; coke and Shanghai gold rose about 3%; platinum, soda ash and caustic soda gained over 2%, while propylene and glass advanced near 2%. On the downside, apples, polysilicon and live hogs fell more than 2%; eggs, rapeseed, paraxylene (PX), rapeseed oil and PTA were down over 1%.

2026-08-24

At midday, China’s main onshore futures contracts were mostly higher. Container-shipping Europe route surged over 5% and ethylene glycol (EG) was up nearly 5%; coke and Shanghai gold rose about 3%; platinum, soda ash and caustic soda gained over 2%, while propylene and glass advanced near 2%. On the downside, apples, polysilicon and live hogs fell more than 2%; eggs, rapeseed, paraxylene (PX), rapeseed oil and PTA were down over 1%.