China's overnight Shibor interbank rate decreases Thursday

BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China's interbank market, decreased 11 basis points to 1.727 percent Thursday.

The seven-day rate dropped 4.5 basis points to 1.822 percent, the one-month rate edged down 0.2 basis points to 1.943 percent, and the one-year rate edged down 0.15 basis points to 2.102 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.