As of the 23:00 close, China's main commodity futures contracts were mixed. Fuel oil climbed more than 3%; butadiene, rubber and methanol rose over 2%; propylene, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), coking coal, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), coke, polypropylene, benzene and ethylene glycol gained over 1%. On the downside, caustic soda fell more than 2%; Soybean No.1, soda ash and iron ore dropped over 1%.

On Nov. 13, China and the United States held the first Trade Council meeting under the China‑U.S. Economic and Trade Consultations mechanism via videoconference. Officials said they discussed implementing prior negotiation outcomes, focusing on tariffs, reciprocal tariff reductions on 300 billion vs 300 billion, agricultural trade and other mutually held concerns. Both sides reported candid, substantive and constructive exchanges and said the Trade Council will continue to coordinate to resolve trade issues, expand a cooperation list and narrow a problems list to help build a constructive, stable China‑U.S. strategic relationship based on respect, fairness and reciprocity.

On Nov. 13 local time Microsoft apologized for a global service outage that affected millions of users. The company said the incident was not related to a cyberattack or AI agents and was triggered by an earlier network capacity upgrade. Microsoft said recovery progress was "encouraging" and it is working to remove residual impacts. The outage left Teams, Outlook and AI assistant Copilot unavailable in at least 70 countries.