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China treasury bond futures open higher Wednesday

Xinhua, June 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's five-year treasury bond futures opened higher on Wednesday, with the contract for settlement in September 2016 opened 0.035 percent higher at 100.500 yuan (about U.S. dollars).

The contract for settlement in December 2016 opened 0.040 percent higher at 99.990 yuan. The contract for settlement in March 2017 opened 0.005 percent higher at 99.560 yuan.

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. Enditem

(This article is generated by Xinhua News Robo