SPB Exchange launches futures trading

MOSCOW. Oct 7 (Interfax) - SPB Exchange has launched trading with futures contracts on the futures market, the exchange said in a statement.

The first instruments to be traded were stock futures from funds which follow the indexes of Brazil, India, China and Saudi Arabia, as well as the bitcoin index and shares in SPB Exchange itself.

Trading on the futures market will take place daily from 10:00 a.m. to 00:00 a.m. Moscow time.