BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) — The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China’s interbank market, decreased 4.2 basis points to 1.727 percent Wednesday.
The seven-day rate went down 2.9 basis points to 1.808 percent, the one-month rate edged down 0.4 basis points to 1.923 percent, and the one-year rate stayed unchanged at 2.099 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.