At the midday close, China's main futures contracts were mostly lower: lithium carbonate and Shanghai silver fell more than 5%; live hogs dropped over 4%; red dates, palladium, Shanghai gold and glass declined around 3%; coking coal fell over 2%. Winners included container shipping (Europe route) up nearly 7%, methanol up over 4%, fuel oil up nearly 4%, propylene up over 2%, and LPG, DCE soybean No.1 and polypropylene up more than 1%.

2026-09-28

At the midday close, China's main futures contracts were mostly lower: lithium carbonate and Shanghai silver fell more than 5%; live hogs dropped over 4%; red dates, palladium, Shanghai gold and glass declined around 3%; coking coal fell over 2%. Winners included container shipping (Europe route) up nearly 7%, methanol up over 4%, fuel oil up nearly 4%, propylene up over 2%, and LPG, DCE soybean No.1 and polypropylene up more than 1%.