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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 69.7 per cent of capacity or 408.208 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 393.637 million cubic metres of water, representing 67.2 per cent of capacity.

End/Monday, February 13, 1995

Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

change

$ million

(hours)

($million)

Opening balance in the account

1,540

0930

+1,456

Closing balance in the account

1.847

1000

+1,436

Change attributable to:

1100

+1,243

Money market activity

+1,266

1200

+1,276

LAF today

-959

1500

+1,276

1600

+1,266

LAF rate 4.25% bid/6.25% offer TWI 121.1 -0.1* 13.2.95

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF notes/Hong Kong Government bonds

EF bills

Terms

Yield

Term

Issue

Coupon

Price

Yield

1 week

5.99

16 months

2605

6.35

99.08

7.24

1 month

6.20

22 months

2611

6.90

99.23

7.50

3 months

6.47

30 months

3707

6.95

98.43

7.81

6 months

6.73

36 months 3801

8.00

100.38

8.00

12 months

7.09

59 months 5912

8.15

99.42

8.47

Total turnover of bills and bonds - $12,414 million

Closed February 13, 1995

End/Monday, February 13, 1995