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China's stock index futures closed down on Monday with the contract for September, the most actively traded, down 0.68 percent from the previous trading day to 2,786.2 points.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, fell 1.82 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 910.61 on Monday.
China's stocks fell for a fifth trading day on Monday as market sentiment remained weak. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closed down 0.73 percent, or 18.5 points, to 2,515.86.
Buy gold and avoid paper money, or fiat currencies, seems to be the message from markets in response to the unsurprising downgrade of US debt by ratings agency Standard and Poor's.
China Life Insurance Company Limited, the world's biggest insurer by market capitalisation, said it was considering a subordinated term debt issue.
China's domestic credit rating agency, Dagong Global Credit Rating Co Ltd Friday decided to maintain the local and foreign currency sovereign credit rating of the Kingdom of Norway as AAA with a stable outlook.
Dagong Global Credit Rating Co Ltd on Friday denied accusations of "generosity" in the ratings it has awarded to domestic companies and some local government bonds, which many market experts felt were high risk.
Stocks on the Chinese mainland fell on Friday, capping a fifth week of losses for the benchmark index.
Domestic securities brokerages can now participate in margin trading and short selling after the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced to turn a pilot program into a regular business operation on Friday.
Equity ratio restrictions on insurance companies can be reduced and large companies are encouraged to get listed or make shareholding reforms, China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) announced in its latest notice.
Hong Kong stocks plunged 632.27 points, or 3.16 percent, to 19,384.00 on Friday's afternoon session just before closing.
China's stocks fell nearly 1 percent on Friday following a more than 3 percent fall in the Wall Street on heightened concerns of a double-dip recession of the global economy.
