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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 79.9 per cent of capacity or 468.453 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 388.311 million cubic metres of water, representing 66.3 per cent of capacity.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

$ million (hours)

change ($million)

Opening balance in the account

1,759

0930

+1,039

Closing balance in the account

1,833

1000

+1,041

Change attributable to:

1100

+1,044

Money market activity

+1,044

1200

+1,044

LAF today

-970

1500

+1,044

1600

+1,044

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.1 *+0.0* 15.4.96

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF bills

EF notes

Terms

Yield

Term

Issue

Coupon

Price

Yield

1 week

4.90

2 years

2802

5.16

98.68

6.01

1 month

4.97

3 years

3901

5.57

98.31

6.34

3 months

5.05

5 years

5103

6.75

99.63

6.95

6 months

5.16

7 years

7302

6.02

93.84

7.30

12 months

5.47

5 years

M502 7.30

100.90

7.19

Total turnover of EF bills and notes - $24.524 million

Closed April 15, 1996

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