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China treasury bond futures close higher Tuesday

Xinhua, July 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's treasury bond futures closed higher on Tuesday, with the contract for settlement in September 2016 closing 0.079 percent higher at 101.160 yuan (about 15.1 U.S. dollars).

The December 2016 contract closed 0.084 percent higher at 100.705 yuan. The March 2017 contract closed 0.045 percent higher at 100.375 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

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