China's futures market reports strong growth in Jan-Oct

China's futures market posted robust growth in the first ten months of this year, with double-digit increases in both trading turnover and volume, according to data released by the China Futures Association (CFA) on Friday.

The trading volume rose by 26.32 percent year on year to about 9.289 billion lots during the January-October period, the data showed.

The association said the total trading turnover came in at 806.32 trillion yuan (about 120.86 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first ten months of this year, increasing 32.44 percent from the same period of 2025.

China's futures market reports strong growth in Jan-Oct

China's loan interest rates remained low in October, the People's Bank of China said on Friday.

In October, the weighted average rate on newly issued enterprise loans was about 2.9 percent, down 0.2 percentage points year on year, while that on new personal housing loans was about 3.1 percent, basically unchanged from the same period last year, the central bank's data showed.

China’s loan interest rates remain low in October