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China treasury bond futures close higher Thursday

Xinhua, October 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's treasury bond futures closed higher on Thursday, with the contract for settlement in December 2016 closed 0.093 percent higher at 101.785 yuan (about 15 U.S. dollars).

The March 2017 contract closed 0.089 percent higher at 101.495 yuan. The June 2017 contract closed 0.084 percent higher at 101.19 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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