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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1988

Dec 1987

TABLE 1 : MONETARY STATISTICS - DECEMBER 1987-

Earlier months

(* change to December 1987)

(HK3mn)

·

- HK$

Money Supply

Mi

Nov 1987

Sep 1987

Dec 1986

73.826

Foreign currency

8,076

Total

81.902

H2

AKS

310,910

Foreign currency

366,132

Total

M3

-

HKS

Foreign currency Total

677.042 342,847 400,506

743,353

Notes and coins in circulation

28,766

of which held by public

24.764

64,890 ( 13.8 %) 9.029 (-10.6 %) 73.919 ( 10.8 %) 287.258 ( 8.2 %) 357,292 ( 2.5 %) 644,550 ( 5.0 %) 321,827 ( 6.5 %) 390,992 ( 2.4 %) 712,819 ( 4.3 %)

26,672 { 7.9 %) 23.183 ( 6.8 %)

62,876 ( 17.4 X) 6,581 ( 22.7 %) 69.456 ( 17.9 %) 285,026 ( 9.1 %) 332,932 ( 10.0 %) 617,958 ( 9.6 X) 319,732 ( 7.2 %) 362.031 ( 10.6 %) -681,763 ( 9.0 %)

25,343 (13.5 X) 22,287 ( 11.1 %)

51.600 (43.1 %) 4,484 ( 79.7 %) 56,094 (46.0 %) 237,776 ( 30.8 %) 280,355 ( 30.6 % 518.131 ( 30.7 %) 270,517 ( 26.7 %) 311,691 ( 28.5 %) 582,208 ( 27.7 %)

22,412 ( 28.4 %) 19,295 ( 28.3 %)

Deposits

Demand deposita

Savings deposits

57.138

181,109

Time deposits with banks

403,439

Time deposits with dtes

61,924

HKS deposita

309,543

US$ deposits

222,603

Other foreign currency deposits All deposits

171,464

703,609

50.736 ( 12.6 %) 157.472 ( 15.0 X) 403,426 ( 0.0 %) 63,854 (−3.0 %) 290,853 ( 6.4 %) 221,357 ( 0.6 X) 163,279 ( 5.0 %) 675,488 ( 4.2 %)

Foreign currency swap deposits

21.151

27,876 (-24.1 %)

34,879 (-39.4 %)

47,169 ( 21.1 %) 148.736 ( 21.8 %) 390,275 ( 3.4 %) 59,577 ( 3.9 %) 289,980 ( 6.7 %) 224,197 (-0.7 %) 131,579 ( 30.3 %) 9.0 %) 645,756 (

36,799 ( 55.3 %) 125,476 ( 44.3 %) 329,078 ( 22.6 %) 4.4 %) 58,298 ( 245,103 ( 26.3 %) 8.3 %) 205,529 ( 100,020 (71.4 %) 550,651 ( 27.8 %)

28.266 (-25.2 %)

Loans and advances

To finance H.K.'s visible trade To finance merchandising trade

not touching H.K.

44,255

7.002

43.645 ( 1.4 X) 6,585 ( 6.3 X)

Other loans for use in H.K. Other loans for use outside H.K. Other loans where the place of

352,685

312,530

62,308

346,768 ( 288,636 ( 56,888 (

1.7 X) 8.3 %) 9.5 %)

42.429 ( 4.3 X) 7,908 -11.5 %)

340,534 ( 3.6 %) 248,596 ( 25.7 %) 56,372 ( 10.5 %

35,502 (24.7 %)

4.595 ( 52.4 %)

270,729 ( 30.3 %) 160,694 ( 94.5 %) 28.077 (114.3 %)

use is not known

Loans in HKS

Louns in foreign currencies

309.345 469,436

309,386 ( 433,136 (

0.0 %) 8.4 %)

308,684 ( 0.2 X) 387,156 ( 21.3 %)

.250,226 ( 28.6 %) 250.371 (67.5 %)

TABLE 2: