Overnight, LME zinc opened at $2457/mt, hitting a high of $2471/mt and a low of $2435/mt respectively, and closed at $2445.5/mt, down $1.5/mt or 0.06%. Trading volume decreased to 5731 lots, and open interest fell 2412 lots to 218,000 lots. LME zinc inventories decreased by 3325 mt to 83450 mt, a drop of 3.83%.
The most active SHFE 2311 prices opened at 21295 yuan/mt and lost 10 yuan/mt or 0.05% to settle at 21195 yuan/mt in overnight trading with the high-end of 21355 yuan/mt and the low-end of 21170 yuan/mt. Trading volumes decreased to 42283 lots and open interest fell 1345 lots to 90120 lots. According to the SMM survey, smelters basically maintained high output in October, while social inventories were slightly reduced yesterday.



