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BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- China's five-year treasury bond futures opened higher on Thursday, with the contract for settlement in September 2016 opening 0.02 percent higher at 100.885 yuan (about 15.5 U.S. dollars).
The contract for settlement in December 2016 opened 0.035 percent higher at 100.5 yuan. The contract for settlement in March 2017 opened 0.055 percent higher at 100.29 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.
(This article is generated by Xinhua News Robot.)
