China To Launch Futures – George Chen

From Reuters:

China will launch stock index futures soon and is ready to approve new quotas for foreign investors in the country’s red hot stock markets, a senior exchange official said on Thursday.

China is trying to develop a stock futures market to give investors more options and help them hedge risk.

But Zhou Qinye, executive vice president of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the bigger of mainland China’s two bourses, told a financial forum that the start of futures trading might initially increase selling pressure on the cash market. [Full Text]

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