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TABLE 2: QUARTERLY ANALYSIS OF LOANS FOR PSE IN HONG KONG BY SECTOR

Dec 1990

DECEMBER 1990 # -

Earlier quarters

* change to December 1990)

L

HK$mo)

Sep 1990

Jun 1990

Dec 1989

1

Manufacturing

49,315

Transport and transpert

equipment

41.332

49.38" (

38.971 (

0.1 #1

5.9 %1

49.429 -0.2 %)

37.658 9.5 %)

46.267 ( 5.6 %)

37.174 10.9 %)

Building. Construction.

108.112

105,088 (

2.9 %1

102.145 !

5.8 %)

96.299 12.3 %)

property development and investment

Wholesale and retail trade

74.641

Financial concerne ➡

Individuals:

104.730

70.639 (

98.988 (

5.7 XI

5.8 %)

62.663

93.849 ( 11.6 %)

1

62.663 ( 19.1

85,158 (23.0 %)

to purchase flats in the Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Farticipation Scheme

13.664

13.899 (

13.883 (

1.6%)-

10.605 ( 28.8 %)

to purchase other reàidential property

132.166

119.858 ( 10.3 %)

113.773 ( 16.2 %)

99.493 ( 32.8

other purposes

Others

Total

60.896

104.612

689.368

60.599 ( 0.5 1

101.968 [ 2.6 %)

659.287 ( 4.6 %)

58.843 ( 3.5 %)

105.222 (−0.6 %)

644.466 C 7.0 %)

55.105 10.5 %)

91,830 13.9 %)

584.594 ( 17.9 %)

#Starting from December 1988. more detailed statistice on loans to the transport, sector.

to building, construction. property development and investment and to financial concerns are available. They are published in the Monthly Digest of Statistics from the January 1989 issue onwards.

As a

+ In December 1988. the return for reporting loans for use by sector was revised.

result of this, some authorized institutions have now more properly classified their leans according to intended usage rather than the business of the loan recipients. * This excludes funds advanced to authorized institutions

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1991

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