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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 95.8 per cent of capacity or 561.379 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 555.232 million cubic metres of water, representing 94.7 per cent of capacity.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

change

$ million

(hours)

($million)

Opening balance in the account

2.469

0930

-511

Closing balance in the account

1,898

1000

-511

Change attributable to:

1100

-511

Money market activity

-511

1200

-511

LAF today

-60

1500

-511

1600

-511

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 124.0 *+0.0* 2.9.96

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

EF notes/MTRC

EF bills

Terms

Yield

Term

Issue

Coupon

Price

Yield

1 week 1 month 5.08

5.09

2 years

2808

6.00

99.34

6.46

3 years

3907

6.80

100.15

6.85

3 months

5.21

5 years

5106

7.23

99.57

7.47

6 months 5.40

7 years

7308

7.24

97.65

7.83

12 months 5.80

5 years M503

7.35

98.67

7.82

Total turnover of EF bills and notes - $7,888 million

Closed September 2, 1996

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