Fuel oil futures jump 6.38% in night session; methanol, styrene also surge

The breadth of the move is the story here: gains of this size across fuel oil, methanol, styrene and the wider propylene and aromatics complex point to a common upstream driver rather than isolated product-specific tightness. That distinction matters for downstream manufacturers in coatings, plastics and packaging, where input costs would move together rather than in offsetting directions. Whether the rally reflects a sustained shift in feedstock economics or a single-session repricing is the open question, and the next test is whether these contracts hold their gains in subsequent sessions or retrace.