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YEAR-ON-YEAR.

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TOTAL HONG KONG DOLLAR DEPOSITS INCREASED BY

20.3%.

FOREIGN CURRENCY DEPOSITS WITH AUTHORISED INSTITUTIONS GREW BY 1.6% IN MAY, AFTER A DECREASE OF 1.1% IN MARCH AND AN INCREASE OF 0.5% IN APRIL.

OF THESE DEPOSITS, U.S. DOLLAR DEPOSITS AND NON-U.S. DOLLAR FOREIGN CURRENCY DEPOSITS INCREASED BY 2.0% AND 1.3% RESPECTIVELY.

YEAR-ON-YEAR, TOTAL FOREIGN CURRENCY DEPOSITS ROSE BY 7.9%.

DURING MAY, DEPOSITS IN ALL CURRENCIES WITH LICENSED BANKS INCREASED BY 2.6%.

DEPOSITS WITH RESTRICTED LICENCE BANKS ROSE BY 2.6% WHILE DEPOSITS WITH DEPOSIT-TAKING COMPANIES DROPPED BY 1.6%.

YEAR-ON-YEAR, DEPOSITS WITH LICENSED BANKS ROSE BY 14.4%, WHILE DEPOSITS WITH RESTRICTED LICENCE BANKS AND DEPOSIT-TAKING COMPANIES DECLINED BY 1.9% AND 24.1% RESPECTIVELY.

MONEY SUPPLY

HK$MI, HK$M2 AND HKSM3 GREW BY 6.3%, 3.5% AND 3.4% RESPECTIVELY IN MAY, COMPARED WITH INCREASES OF 1.1%, 1.9% AND 1.8% IN APRIL.

YEAR-ON-YEAR, THESE MONETARY AGGREGATES INCREASED BY 32.4%. 21.7% AND 19.8% RESPECTIVELY.

TOTAL

MI. M2 AND M3 INCREASED BY 5.6%. 2.5% AND

RESPECTIVELY IN MAY.

THE CORRESPONDING

1.1%.

2.4%

GROWTH RATES IN APRIL WERE 1.7%, 1.2% AND

YEAR-ON-YEAR, THESE MONETARY AGGREGATES GREW BY

29.4%, 14.3%

AND 13.0% RESPECTIVELY.

LOANS AND ADVANCES

IN

TOTAL OUTSTANDING LOANS AND ADVANCES EXTENDED BY AUTHORISED INSTITUTIONS INCREASED BY 2.7% IN MAY, FOLLOWING A DECLINE OF 0.4% MARCH AND AN INCREASE OF 0.7% IN APRIL.

AMONG KONG DOLLAR

THE TOTAL OUTSTANDING LOANS, THOSE DENOMINATED IN HONG INCREASED BY 2.0% WHILE THOSE DENOMINATED IN FOREIGN CURRENCY ROSE BY 3.1%.

COMPARED WITH A YEAR EARLIER, THESE LOANS INCREASED BY 17.6% AND 26.0% RESPECTIVELY.

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