At the morning-session close, China's main futures contracts were mostly lower.
No.20 rubber, container freight (Europe route) and SC crude fell over 3%. Egg,
polysilicon, rubber, ethylene glycol (EG), platinum, palladium and Shanghai
silver declined more than 2%. On the upside, methanol, asphalt and propylene
rose over 2%; pure benzene and styrene (EB) gained over 1%, starch was up about
1%.