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China treasury bond futures close higher Thursday

Xinhua, January 19, 2017 Adjust font size:

China's treasury bond futures closed higher on Thursday, with the contract for settlement in March 2017 closed 0.232 percent higher at 99.355 yuan (about 14.48 U.S. dollars).

The June 2017 contract closed 0.188 percent higher at 98.425 yuan. The September 2017 contract closed 0.246 percent higher at 97.900 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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