After continuous buoyancy, share prices on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock bourses were in volatile trading and closed mixed on Tuesday as profit-taking pressures grew after a bull run since October.
For the whole day, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index went down 0.18 percent to end at 3,640.49 points. The Shenzhen Composite Index increased 0.82 percent to end at 2,209.61 points. The index for small firms advanced 0.44 percent to end at 8,443.87 and the ChiNext Index rose 0.81 percent to end at 2,746.61. Combined turnover of the two bourses shrank to 1.26 trillion yuan from 1.37 trillion yuan on the previous trading day.
Stocks of transport facilities, logistics, banking, insurance, transport services, transport equipment, internet, electricity grid and shipbuilding sectors led the losers on Tuesday, while nonferrous metals, media and entertainment, chemical fiber, securities dealers, coal, petroleum and agriculture sectors outperformed.
On the stock index futures market, the IF November contract advanced 0.41 percent to end at 3,776.0, keeping a discount of 57.24 points to the underlying Hushen 300 Index, which went down 0.19 percent to end at 3,833.24. The SSE 50 November contract sank 0.90 percent to end at 2,497.0, representing a discount of 25.68 points to the underlying SSE 50 Index, which fell 0.45 percent to close at 2,522.68. The CSI November contract kept flat at 7,394.0, keeping a discount of 181.01 points to the underlying CSI 500 stock index, which increased 0.41 percent to end at 7,575.01.
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