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5.

INVESTMENTS:

HONG KONG (11) ABROAD

(i)

OTHER ASSETS:

(1) HONG KONG

(11) ABROAD

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TOTAL ASSETS:

AVERAGE LIQUIDITY DURING MONTH

MONEY SUPPLY

WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1978

3,939 115

4,054

4,703 155

4,858

104,999

45.206

MONTH ENDED

30TH APRIL 1978

$ MILLION

1.

LEGAL TENDER COINS AND NOTES IN CIRCULATION A) (1) COMMERCIAL BANK ISSUES.

6,106

(1) GOVERNMENT ISSUES

657

6,763

2.

LICENSED BANKS' HOLDINGS OF LEGAL TENDER COINS

AND NOTES (3)

1,020

3.

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LEGAL TENDER COINS AND NOTES IN HANDS OF NON-

BANK PUBLIC (A) (3) (C)

5,743

4.

DEMAND DEPOSITS WITH LICENSED BANKS (D)

12,840

5.

MONEY SUPPLY (DEFINITION 1) (C) + (D) ·

=

(E)

18,583

6.

TIME DEPOSITS WITH LICENSED BANKS (F

22,401

7. SAVINGS DEPOSITS WITH LICENSED BANKS (6)

22,282

8.

MONEY SUPPLY (DEFINITION 2)

(E) + (F) + (G) = (H)

63,266

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