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TABLE 2 QUARTERLY ANALYSIS OF LOANS FOR USE IN HONG KONG BY SECTOR
Har 1990
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1990
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MARCH 1990 # +
(HE#mu}
Earlier quarters
(% change to March 1990)
Dec 1989
Sep 1989
Mar 1989
Manufacturing
48,062
Transport and transport
equipment
37.149
46,267 ( 3.9 X)
37.174 (−0.1
47.619 ( 0.9.)
33.435 ( 11.1 %)
43,529 ( 10.4
26.608 ( 39.E I)
Building, construction.
101,149
96,299 (
5.0 %)
96.772 ( 4.5 X)
64.243 (20.1 X1
property development and investment
Wholesale and retail trade
65,358
Financial concerns *
90,507
62.663 ( 4.3 %)
90.108 ( 6.3 X)
62.729 ( 4.2 X)
74.919 (20.8 %)
65.990 ( 0.0 %)
63,740 ( 43.0 %)
Individuals:
to purchase flats in the Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme
12.660
10.605 ( 19.4 %)
9,880 ( 28.1 %)
8,887 ( 42.5 %)
to purchase other residential property
107,406
99,493 (
*. *
89.957
19.4 X)
82,327 (30.5 X)
other purposes
Others
Total
56.828
99,428
615,547
55,105 (
9.1 X)
91.830 ( 8.3 X)
584.594 ( 5.8 X1
52,756 ( 7.7 %)
93.414 ( 8.4 %)
561.481 ( 10,2 %)
50.820 (11.6 %)
83.103 ( 19.6 %)
508,748 21.6 X)
#Starting from December 1988. more detailed statistics on loans to the transport sector,
to building, construction, property development and investment and to financial concerns are available. They are published in the Monthly Digest of Statistics from the January 1989 issue onwards.
As a
+ In December 1988, the return for reporting loans for use by sector was revised.
result of this, some authorized institutions have now more properly classified their loans according to intended usage rather than the business of the loan recipients.
This excludes funds advanced to authorized institutions
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