At midday close, China’s main futures contracts traded mixed. Synthetic rubber
rose over 4%, 20# rubber nearly 3%; eggs, SC crude, bitumen and natural rubber
gained more than 2%; low‑sulfur fuel oil (LU) was up about 2%. On the downside,
silicomanganese and ferrosilicon fell over 4%, lithium carbonate dropped over
3%; coking coal, coke, Shanghai gold and Shanghai silver declined more than 2%,
and polysilicon slipped about 2%.
