Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures ended 1.7% higher on Friday, in line with a firm Shanghai market that got support from government data showing a rise in monthly imports by the world's top consumer, brokers said.
Preliminary government data showed China imported 840,000 tonnes of natural and synthetic rubber in December, up 15.1% from a year earlier.
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange rubber contract for June delivery finished 3.6 yen higher at 210.5 yen (US$1.89) per kg after hitting 211 yen earlier, the highest since Dec 28. For the week, the contract gained 2.8%.
The most active rubber contract on the Shanghai futures exchange for May delivery rose 175 yuan to finish at 14,295 yuan (US$2,210) per tonne.
Rubber inventories in warehouses monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose 2.1% from last Friday, the exchange said on Friday.
The front-month rubber contract on Singapore's SICOM exchange for February delivery last traded at 151.00 U.S. cents per kg, up 0.5 cent.
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