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Money Supply
As at end of year
1975
1976
$ Million
1977
Legal tender coins and notes in circulation
Commercial bank issues (A)
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
3316-00
3942.00
4729.00
The Chartered Bank
723-76
785.03
1000-48
Mercantile Bank
Government issues (B)
Five-dollar coins
28.64
29.47
29.14
One-thousand-dollar gold coins
19.97
35.46
58.23
45.00
115.50
Two-dollar coins
One-dollar coins
Subsidiary coins
30.50
46.50
64.50
170-89
161.37
192.82
ľ
=-136.54
131.48
164.77
One-cent notes
Demand deposits with licensed banks (C)
Time deposits with licensed banks (D)
Savings deposits with licensed banks (E)
Licensed banks' holdings of legal tender (F)
Money supply:
Definition 1 (A+B+C-F)
Definition 2 (A+B+C+D+E-F)
18081-21
58 450-21
* Figures revised due to deposits at 7 days' notice or less previously included under demand deposits are now included
under time deposits.
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0.71 7760.00*
0.76
0.77
9667.00*
12 650.00
15 780.00* 12803.00
18423.00*
19616.00
15940.00
20753.00
775.00
794.00
924.00
11412-01*
39 995-01
14050-07* 48413.07
Banking: Liabilities and Assets
$ Million
1975
As at end of year 1976
Number of licensed banks
74
74
1977 74
Liabilities
Deposits:
Demand
7760*
9667*
12650
Time
15780*
18423*
19616
Savings
12803
15940
20753
Amount due to banks abroad
21 243
27 598
36850
Other liabilities
8011
8170
10497
Total liabilities
*65 597
79 798
100 366
Assets
Cash (legal tender notes and coins)
775
794
924
Amount due from banks abroad:
Demand and short term claims
Abroad
Abroad
Time deposits
Loans and advances:
Hong Kong
Investments:
Hong Kong
Abroad
Other assets:
Hong Kong
Total assets
* Figures revised due to deposits at 7 days' notice or less previously included under demand deposits are now included
under time deposits.
19044 2001
22448
3301
28952 5 200
24998
29 480
36856
10077
13255
18793
2891
3251
3836
50
74
101
3 525
3 666
4218
2236
3 529
1 486
65 597
79 798
100 366
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