9.

Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 93.5 per cent of capacity or 547.766 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 448.329 million cubic metres of water, representing 76.5 per cent of capacity.

End

Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

change

$ million

(hours)

($million)

Opening balance in the account

1,868

0930

+93

Closing balance in the account

1,791

1000

+93

Change attributable to:

1100

+93

Money market activity

+93

1200

+93

LAF today

-170

1500

+93

1600

+93

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.0 *+0.0* 22.7.96

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF bills

EF notes

Terms

Yield

Term

Issue

Coupon Price

Yield

1 week

5.06

2 years

2805

6.30

100.08

6.34

I month

5.10

3 years

3904 6.30

99.19

6.73

3 months

5.26

5 years

5106 7.23

99.90

7.38

6 months

5.45

7 years

7305 7.60

100.26

7.69

12 months

5.85

5 years

M502 7.30

99.57

7.55

Total turnover of EF bills and notes - $6,377 million

Closed July 22, 1996

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