China close: Shanghai Composite −1.10% to 3,649.18, ChiNext −3.96%; onshore yuan 6.6711; fixing weakened 12 bp to 6.7168. | China Day chinaday.news
China's major A-share indices closed lower on Friday 6 November. The Shanghai Composite finished at 3,649.18, down 1.10%; the Shenzhen Component at 11,175.78, down 2.57%; ChiNext at 2,465.23, down 3.96%; the CSI 300 at 4,054.28, down 1.44%; and the STAR50 at 1,253.20, down 2.60%. Xinhua Finance put Shanghai turnover at about 772.6 billion yuan and Shenzhen at about 885.2 billion yuan, or roughly 1.66 trillion yuan combined, about 460.2 billion yuan lighter than the prior session; power, banks and agriculture planting led while compute-hardware, telecoms and components lagged. The Paper/Sina Finance, Tonghuashun and FX168 carried the same index closes; SCMP said the CSI 300 fell about 1.4% and the STAR50 2.6%, with the Hang Seng down about 1.3% to 24,481.86; Reuters via Business Recorder said tech led declines after the overnight Nasdaq rout. The yuan's central parity was set at 6.7168 per dollar, 12 pips weaker (Tonghuashun; Xinhua English). The onshore yuan closed at 6.6711 at 16:30, down 1 pip (NBD/Tonghuashun, Gelonghui); the offshore yuan's full-day close was about 6.6678 (Investing.com/Yahoo Finance). The issue's market table, which had carried the Thursday 5 November close, is updated to 6 November.