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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 79.8 per cent of capacity or 467.467 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 409.551 million cubic metres of water, representing 69.9 per cent of capacity.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

change

$ million

(hours)

($million)

Opening balance in the account

2,244

0930

+255

Closing balance in the account

2,775

1000

+259

Change attributable to:

1100

+259

Money market activity

+251

1200

+259

LAF today

+280

1500

+259

1600

+251

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 123.7 *-0.1* 5.2.96

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF bills

EF notes

Terms

Yield

Tern

Issue

Coupon

Price

Yield

1 week

5.08

2 years

2711

5.60

100.80.

5.18

1 month

5.11

3 years

3901 5.57

100.64

5.40

3 months

5.14

5 years

5012 6.38

102.30

5.91

6 months

5.11

7 years

7211 6.82

103.70

6.24

12 months 5.10

5 years

M502 7.30

104.80

6.21

Total turnover of EF bills and notes - $18.174 million

Closed February 5, 1996

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