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Table 3 Summary Statistics (Dalian Commodity Exchange)

From: The effect of nighttime trading of futures markets on information flows: evidence from China

Futures

Sample period

Mean

Std.

Skewness

Kurtosis

Eq. mean

Eq. var.

RBD palm olein

Pre-NT

−0.00067

0.0137

−0.468***

2.219***

0.37

1.85***

Post-NT

−0.00091

0.0101

−0.054

1.272***

Metallurgical coke

Pre-NT

−0.00148

0.0108

−0.247***

1.694***

−0.13

1.97***

Post-NT

−0.00141

0.0077

0.014

1.226***

No. 1 soybeans

Pre-NT

0.00013

0.0103

−0.348***

3.541***

1.71*

1.67***

Post-NT

−0.00089

0.0080

0.193

3.287***

Soybean meal

Pre-NT

0.00024

0.0122

−0.211***

1.888***

1.13

1.79***

Post-NT

−0.00053

0.0091

0.229

1.221***

Crude soybean oil

Pre-NT

−0.00054

0.0122

−0.557***

2.862***

−0.50

1.85***

Post-NT

−0.00020

0.0090

0.048

0.998***

Coking coal

Pre-NT

−0.00175

0.0104

−0.391***

0.917***

−0.89

1.41***

Post-NT

−0.00101

0.0088

−0.172

1.340***

Iron ore

Pre-NT

−0.00208

0.0117

−0.332**

1.497***

−0.95

1.95***

Post-NT

−0.00081

0.0163

−0.262

1.497***

  1. ***, ** and * denote significance at 1 %, 5 %, and 10 % level, respectively