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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 71.2 per cent of capacity or 417.325 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 388.613 million cubic metres of water, representing 66.3 per cent of capacity,

End/Monday, January 16, 1995

Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

$ million (hours)

change (Smillion)

Opening balance in the account

2,086

0930

-3,466

Closing balance in the account

1,128

1000

-2,466

Change attributable to:

1100

-2,466

Money market activity

-1,689

1200

-2,286

LAF today

+731

1500

-2,225

1600

-1,689

LAF rate 3.75% bid/5.75% offer TWI 120.9 *+0.1* 16.1.95

EF bills

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF notes/Hong Kong Government bonds

Terms

Yield

Term

Issue

Coupon Price

Yield

1 week

6.83

17 months

2605

6.35

98.53

7.66

1 month

6.68

23 months

2611

6.90

98.49

7.94

3 months

6.66

28 months

3704

6.15

96.15

8.18

6 months

6.68

34 months

3710

7.25

97.65

8.37

12 months 7.46

60 months

5912

8.15

98.27

8.77

Total turnover of bills and bonds - $13,809 million

Closed January 16, 1995

End/Monday, January 16, 1995