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Water storage figure
Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 83.4 per cent of capacity or 488.616 million cubic metres.
This time last year the reservoirs contained 372.96 million cubic metres of water, representing 68.6 per cent of capacity.
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Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations
Cumulative
Time
$ million
(hours)
change ($million)
Opening balance in the account
2,050
0930
-90
Closing balance in the account
2,258
1000
-90
Change attributable to :
1100
-90
Money market activity
-72
1200
-79
LAF today
+280
1500
-79
1600
-72
LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.3 *+0.1* 27.5.96
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
EF bills
EF notes
Terms
Yield
Term
Issue
Coupon
Price
Yield
1 week
5.10
2 years
2805 6.30
100.46
6.14
1 month
5.07
3 years
3904 6.30
99.49
6.60
3 months
5.14
5 years
5103
6.75
98.32
7.29
6 months
5.21
7 years
7302
6.02
92.03
7.69
12 months 5.55
5 years
M502 7.30
99.74
7.50
Total turnover of EF bills and notes - $14,425 million
Closed May 27, 1996
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