BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the borrowing cost of China's interbank market, decreased 13.3 basis points to 1.972 percent Tuesday.
The seven-day rate dropped 5.4 basis points to 2.139 percent, the one-month rate edged down 0.1 basis points to 2.3 percent, and the one-year rate edged down 0.4 basis points to 2.704 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. Enditem
