BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) — The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China’s interbank market, edged down 1.8 basis points to 1.516 percent Tuesday.
The seven-day rate gained 3.5 basis points to 1.843 percent, the one-month rate edged down 0.13 basis points to 2.066 percent, and the one-year rate stayed flat at 2.338 percent.
Shibor is a simple, no-guarantee, wholesale interest rate calculated by arithmetically averaging all the interbank RMB lending rates offered by the price quotation group of 18 commercial banks with a high credit rating, with the four highest and four lowest quotations excluded.