China Commodity Futures Close: LU Fuel Oil Jumps Nearly 6%, Pure Benzene Up Over 4%

The session's split is the story: a sharp bid in fuel-oil-linked contracts alongside a heavy selloff in methanol and a broad industrial softness across rubbers, soda ash and alumina. That pattern points to a market trading product-specific supply stories rather than one macro commodity impulse, with the energy complex and the petrochemical/industrial chain pulling in opposite directions. Whether the fuel oil and pure benzene strength persists beyond a single session, or the methanol-led weakness spreads into the rest of the complex, is the open question.