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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Futures exchange to offer contracts for silver|Business|chinadaily.com.cn

Futures exchange to offer contracts for silver|Business|chinadaily.com.cn


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The Shanghai Futures Exchange received regulatory approval on Wednesday to start tradingin silver contracts, giving Chinese investors a new way to bet on the precious metal.
The lot size of the contracts was set at 15 kilograms and the lot prices will be allowed tofluctuate by 5 percent a day. The margin requirement was set at 7 percent and prices will bequoted in yuan. The minimum amount the prices will be allowed to fluctuate was set at 1 yuan(16 US cents).
The silver contracts are the first of their type to be offered in China. Before, investors had touse Shanghai Gold Exchange Ag (T+D) contracts to conduct certain transactions of the metal.They could also go to commercial banks to buy paper silver, which don't have to be deliveredphysically.

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