China’s most active futures contracts are mostly higher at the midday break, with tin and lithium carbonate up over 6%, silver up over 5%, palladium and platinum up over 4%, nickel, caustic soda and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) up over 3%, and containerized freight index (Europe route), iron ore, coking coal, zinc, coke, polypropylene and hot-rolled coil up over 2%. On the downside, SC crude drops over 2%, while apples, urea and styrene fall over 1%.

2026-05-06

China’s most active futures contracts are mostly higher at the midday break, with tin and lithium carbonate up over 6%, silver up over 5%, palladium and platinum up over 4%, nickel, caustic soda and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) up over 3%, and containerized freight index (Europe route), iron ore, coking coal, zinc, coke, polypropylene and hot-rolled coil up over 2%. On the downside, SC crude drops over 2%, while apples, urea and styrene fall over 1%.