At the opening of the morning session, most domestic futures contracts were down, with caustic soda, polysilicon, and red dates falling by more than 2%. Shanghai silver, fuel oil, styrene, coking coal, international copper, Shanghai gold, asphalt, industrial silicon, lithium carbonate, low-sulfur fuel oil, Shanghai copper, No. 20 rubber, rebar, BR rubber, and coke all fell by more than 1%. On the upside, container shipping to Europe rose by more than 2%.
