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China treasury bond futures open higher Thursday

BEIJING
2017-03-23 10:20

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China's five-year treasury bond futures opened higher on Thursday, with the contract for settlement in June 2017 opening 0.030 percent higher at 98.880 yuan (about 14.35 U.S. dollars).

The contract for settlement in September 2017 opened 0.061 percent higher at 98.295 yuan. The contract for settlement in December 2017 had no trading at opening.

The contracts are agreements to buy or sell treasury bonds at a predetermined price and set date.

They allow investors to bet on and profit from the movements in the value of the bonds.

The treasury bond futures were launched at the Shanghai-based China Financial Futures Exchange and started trading on Sept. 6, 2013.

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