China’s most active futures contracts were mostly higher by midday, with the container freight index (Europe route) rising more than 6%, and lithium carbonate, tin, fuel oil and benzene up over 4%. Low-sulfur fuel oil, polysilicon, ethylene glycol, styrene, SC crude and aluminum gained more than 3%, while caustic soda fell over 4% and synthetic rubber and industrial silicon dropped more than 2%.

2026-03-30

China’s most active futures contracts were mostly higher by midday, with the container freight index (Europe route) rising more than 6%, and lithium carbonate, tin, fuel oil and benzene up over 4%. Low-sulfur fuel oil, polysilicon, ethylene glycol, styrene, SC crude and aluminum gained more than 3%, while caustic soda fell over 4% and synthetic rubber and industrial silicon dropped more than 2%.