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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 83.4 per cent of capacity or 488.616 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 372.96 million cubic metres of water, representing 68.6 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

2,050

0930

-90

Closing balance in the account

2,258

1000

-90

Change attributable to :

1100

-90

Money market activity

-72

1200

-79

LAF today

+280

1500

-79

1600

-72

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.3 *+0.1* 27.5.96

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF bills

EF notes

Terms

Yield

Term

Issue

Coupon

Price

Yield

1 week

5.10

2 years

2805 6.30

100.46

6.14

1 month

5.07

3 years

3904 6.30

99.49

6.60

3 months

5.14

5 years

5103

6.75

98.32

7.29

6 months

5.21

7 years

7302

6.02

92.03

7.69

12 months 5.55

5 years

M502 7.30

99.74

7.50

Total turnover of EF bills and notes - $14,425 million

Closed May 27, 1996

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