DALIAN, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — Iron ore futures closed higher on Friday in daytime trading at the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE).
The most active iron ore contract for January 2024 delivery gained 20 yuan (about 2.79 U.S. dollars) to close at 879 yuan per tonne.
On Friday, the total trading volume of 12 listed iron ore futures contracts on the exchange was 688,729 lots, with a turnover of about 60.13 billion yuan.
As the world’s largest importer of iron ore, China opened the DCE iron ore futures to international investors in May 2018.