Tuesday April 1 2025

News Source: Global Exchanges

Focus: Holidays and Opening Hours and suspensions

Type: General

Country: China

Link: https://tinyurl.com/dr4rkhaf




On 1st April 2025, Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) announced relevant work arrangements during the Qingming Festival are as follows:   

There will be no night trading on the evening of April 3, 2025 (Thursday).   

  • Closed from April 4, 2025 (Friday) to April 6, 2025 (Sunday).   
  • On April 7, 2025 (Monday), all futures and options contracts will be subject to call auction from 08:55 to 09:00, and night trading will resume that evening.

Starting from the trading on April 7, 2025 (Monday), from the closing settlement of the first trading day without a one-sided market, the price limit range and trading margin ratio will be adjusted as follows:   

  • The price limit of alumina futures contracts was adjusted to 7%, the margin ratio for hedging transactions was adjusted to 8%, and the margin ratio for speculative transactions was adjusted to 9%;   
  • Other matters regarding the price limit range and trading margin ratio shall be implemented in accordance with the “Shanghai Futures Exchange Risk Control Management Measures”.  

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