1st LD-Writethru: Chinese shares close mixed Thursday

BEIJING, June 16– Chinese stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.61 percent, at 3,285.38 points. Turnover of stocks covered by the two indices stood at about 1.08 trillion yuan, retreating from 1.3 trillion yuan the previous trading day. The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises,…

BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.61 percent, at 3,285.38 points.

The Shenzhen Component Index closed 0.11 percent higher at 12,150.96 points.

Turnover of stocks covered by the two indices stood at about 1.08 trillion yuan (about 161 billion U.S. dollars), retreating from 1.3 trillion yuan the previous trading day.

Stocks related to photovoltaic and education logged big gains, while those related to securities, banks and insurance were among the biggest losers.

The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, gained 0.4 percent to close at 2,585.47 points. Enditem