Base metals on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed during the morning trading session on Monday September 30, the last trading day before China's National Day holiday on October 1-7.
"The market has already entered the vacation mode as most market participants left late last week for the holiday," a Chinese broker told Fastmarkets. "Range-bound movement is expected to dominate today's market amid thin trading," the broker added. In the SHFE base metals, copper was the outperformer this morning, with its most-traded November contract rising to 47,110 yuan (around $6,615) per tonne as at 10.19am Shanghai time, an increase of 190 yuan...