China's most-active egg futures contract rose 3.79% intraday to 3,561 yuan/500 kg; open interest increased by 17,800 contracts, a marked change in positions.

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Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into an Oct. 31 incident in the city's 12th arrondissement where a homemade petrol bomb was thrown at a gendarme during nationwide protests. The explosion caused minor injuries to one gendarme; prosecutors are treating the case as attempted murder of a public official. Interior Minister Nunez said police faced significant violence during the demonstrations but overall order was maintained. The interior ministry reported about 320,000 people demonstrated nationwide on Oct. 31 and 779 arrests were made.