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China treasury bond futures open higher Friday

Xinhua, August 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's five-year treasury bond futures opened higher on Friday, with the contract for settlement in September 2016 opening 0.039 percent higher at 101.855 yuan (about 15.32 U.S. dollars).

The contract for settlement in December 2016 opened 0.020 percent higher at 101.380 yuan. The contract for settlement in March 2017 opened 0.049 percent higher at 101.105 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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