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BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's key Hushen 300 index futures opened slightly lower on Thursday.
The contract for settlement in September 2016 opened flat.
The October 2016 contract lost 0.2 point to open at 3,308 points. The December 2016 contract fell by 1.2 points to open at 3,259.4 points.
The stock-index contracts, agreements to buy or sell the blue-chip Hushen 300 Index at a present 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.
