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Chinese shares open lower Monday

Xinhua, April 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks opened lower Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.64 percent, at 3,058.46 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.64 percent lower at 10,665.44 points. The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 0.92 percent to open at 2,288.42 points. Endi