China Hushen 300 index futures open mixed Thursday
Xinhua,April 12, 2018 Adjust font size:
BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Hushen 300 index futures opened mixed on Thursday, with the contract for settlement in April 2018 up 0.25 percent at 3,942 points.
The May 2018 contract opened 0.03 percent lower at 3,919 points. The June contract opened 0.01 percent higher at 3,899 points. The September contract opened 0.04 percent higher at 3,865.4 points.
The stock-index contracts, agreements to buy or sell the blue-chip Hushen 300 Index at a preset value on an agreed date, are designed to allow investors to bet on and profit from either gains or declines in the market.
The index futures were launched at the China Financial Futures Exchange and started trading from April 16, 2010. The CFFEX has set the base value for all the four contracts at 3,399 points. Enditem
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