China Commodity Futures Close: Pure Benzene Limit Down; Fuel Oil, LPG, Crude Down Over 6%

The breadth of the selloff matters more than any single contract: energy, petrochemicals and refined products moving together points to a sector-wide repricing rather than an isolated squeeze, with pure benzene's limit down signaling that sellers overwhelmed the session outright. This lands on domestic Chinese industrial and petrochemical participants whose margins are tied to these feedstock prices. The outlier is container shipping on the Europe route, pushing higher against the energy complex — whether that divergence persists, and whether the limit-down move in pure benzene carries into the next session, is the open question worth watching.