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TABLE 2 : QUARTERLY ANALYSIS OF LOANS FOR USE IN HONG KONG BY SECTOR – SEPTEMBER 1995

Sectors

Trade Financing

Sep 1995 (HK$ Mn)

Adjusted % change of Earlier quarters# to Sep 1995

Jun 1995

Mar 1995

Sep 1994

172,110

-2.4

9.5

23.3

Manufacturing

98,004

1.7

7.0

20.0

Transport and transport equipment

69,782

-0.0

-1.6

-0.6

Building, construction, property

259,325

1.5

2.4

10.1

development and investment

Wholesale and retail trade

159,544

1.5

L

11.2

28.0

Financial concerns

170,779

6.7

3.6

11.6

Individuals:

T

to purchase flats in the Home

43,699

8.4

00

8.0

8.5

:

Ownership Scheme and Private

Sector Participation Scheme

to purchase other residential

290,621

3.7

10.7

13.8

property

other purposes

Others

Total

111.446

-0.9

2.2

7.9

160,392

2.2

1.9

1.1

1,535,702

2.0

5.8

12.7

With the introduction of the new Retum on Loans and Advance and Provisions (as revised from the Return on Loans and Advances for Use in Hong Kong) as from December 1994, a number of Als have reclassified certain components. As a result, the figures are not strictly comparable with those of previous quarters. The percentage changes given above have been adjusted, so far as possible, to remove the reclassification effect and therefore cannot be calculated directly from the published figures.

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This excludes funds advanced to authorized institutions.

End/Tuesday, October 31, 1995