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SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1991.
LICENSED BANKS LICENCE BANKS AND
COMPARED WITH A YEAR EARLIER, DEPOSITS WITH INCREASED BY 18.7% WHILE THOSE WITH RESTRICTED DEPOSIT-TAKING COMPANIES FELL BY 5.2% AND 20.2% RESPECTIVELY.
MONEY SUPPLY
0.1% AND HK$M3 WITH CORRESPONDING
HK$M1 DECLINED BY 4.4%, WHILE HK$M2 GREW BY
COMPARED THESE RECORDED A ZERO GROWTH IN MAY. INCREASES OF 4.2%, 0.9% AND 0.8% IN APRIL.
OVER THE YEAR, THESE MONETARY AGGREGATES ROSE BY 14.3%, AND 11.7% RESPECTIVELY.
13,3%
TOTAL M1, M2 AND M3
RESPECTIVELY IN MAY.
4.2%,
0.1% BY
AND DECLINED THEIR CORRESPONDING GROWTH RATES IN APRIL
0.4%
WERE
4.2%, 1.0% AND 0.8%.
OVER THE YEAR, TOTAL M1, M2 AND M3 GREW BY 15.8%,
18.2% AND
16.2% RESPECTIVELY.
LOANS AND ADVANCES
BY AUTHORISED
TOTAL OUTSTANDING LOANS AND ADVANCES EXTENDED INSTITUTIONS INCREASED BY 1.8% IN MAY, FOLLOWING A DECREASE OF 1.2% IN MARCH AND AN INCREASE OF 1.4% IN APRIL.
KONG OF THE TOTAL OUTSTANDING LOANS, THOSE DENOMINATED IN HONG
FOREIGN DOLLARS GREW BY 1.5% DURING MAY, WHILE THOSE DENOMINATED IN
OVER THE YEAR, THESE LOANS GREW BY 15.3% AND CURRENCIES ROSE BY 1.9%. 42.2% RESPECTIVELY.
OF
MARCH
LOANS TO FINANCE VISIBLE TRADE OF HONG KONG GREW BY
0.3% AND
IN 1.2% INCREASES RESPECTIVELY. OVER THE YEAR, THESE LOANS GREW BY 18.8%.
MAY, FOLLOWING
3.5% IN AND APRIL
MONTHS.
OTHER LOANS FOR USE IN HONG KONG GREW BY 0.9% IN MAY, FOLLOWING INCREASES OF 2.9% AND 0.4% RESPECTIVELY IN THE PRECEDING TWO OVER THE YEAR, THESE LOANS GREW BY 16.0%.
LOANS FOR USE OUTSIDE HONG KONG ROSE BY 2.4% IN MAY, DECREASE OF 2.3% IN MARCH AND AN INCREASE OF 8.6% IN APRIL. YEAR, THESE LOANS GREW BY 61.6%.
NUMBER OF REPORTING INSTITUTIONS
AFTER A OVER THE
THE NUMBER OF REPORTING LICENSED BANKS INCREASED BY ONE TO 165. THE NUMBER OF RESTRICTED LICENCE BANKS REMAINED UNCHANGED AT 45 WHILE THAT OF DEPOSIT-TAKING COMPANIES FELL BY TWO TO 166.
NOTES:
(1)
BEFORE FEBRUARY
"DEPOSIT-TAKING
TAKING
COMPANIES"
"RESTRICTED 1, 1990,
WERE KNOWN COMPANIES"
AND
DEPOSIT-TAKING "REGISTERED
LICENCE BANKS" AND
AS
"LICENSED
DEPOSIT~ COMPANIES
RESPECTIVELY.
(2) IN THE