China's overnight Shibor interbank rate rises Monday

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China's interbank market, rose 3.3 basis points to 2.629 percent Monday.

The seven-day Shibor rose 1.2 basis points to 2.656 percent. The one-month rate edged up 1.7 basis points to 2.588 percent, while the one-year rate declined 0.3 basis points to 3.0755 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.