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China treasury bond futures close higher Thursday

Xinhua, January 5, 2017 Adjust font size:

China's treasury bond futures closed higher on Thursday, with the contract for settlement in March 2017 closed 0.267 percent higher at 99.580 yuan (about 14.432 U.S. dollars).

The June 2017 contract closed 0.244 percent higher at 98.545 yuan. The September 2017 contract closed 0.138 percent higher at 97.905 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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