Table 11
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Reserves and liabilities
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United Kingdom sterling liabilities, official holdings of non-dollar currencies and credit balances in E.P.U.
units of account(1)
End of month
Göld
United States dollars
Canadian dollars
Total gold and dollar holdings
United Kingdom
sterling liabilities
Non-
Sterling
sterling area countries (2) countries
Total
Official holdings of balances non-dollar in E.P.U currencies
Credit
units of
(3)
account
U.S. $ million
£ million (4)
£ million
1945 December
1,987
471
1946 December
2,429
219
1947 December
2,008
45
1948 December
1,611
228
1949 December
1,321
308
08
18
2,476
610
1,234
2,454
3,688
48
2,696
664
1,304
2,417
3,721
41
26
2,079
512
1,309
2,288
3,597
17
1,856
457
1,063
2,361
3,424
60
1,688
603
1,073
2,352
3,425
*-888
37
38
23
1950 March
1,478
392
115
1,984
709
1,033
2,497
3,530
37
June
1,604
653
166
2,422
865
1,004
2,570
3,574
41
September...
2,320,
242
194
2,756
984
979
2,594
3,573
77
October
2,556
380
182
3,118
1,114
1,030
2,641
3,671
107
November
2,750
295
168
3,212
1,147
1,026
2,670
3,696
66
December
2,862
274
164
3,300
1,178
1,023
2,734
3,757
51
889909
50
80
1951 January
3,006
244
161
3,411
1,219
989
2,807
3,796
February
3,142
260
163
3,565
1,273
979.
2,908
3,887
698959
88
62
94
March
3,327
267
164
3,758
1,342.
.I
(1) Excluding holdings of non-territorial organisations.
Including Egypt, Sudan and Israel throughout.
DOOO
All O.E.E.C. countries' currencies except £1 million in 1945, 1946 and 1947. Conversion rates:-
Until 18th September, 1949, gold 172s. 3d. per fine ounce, U.S. $4.03=£1,
Canadian $4.44=£1 (until June 1946), thereafter $4.03=£1.
From 19th September, 1949, gold 250s. Od. per fine ounce, U.S. $2·80=£1, Canadian $3.08=£1 (until September 1950), thereafter at the rate ruling from time to time.
Gold and dollar holdings at 18th September, 1949, converted at old rates
330, new rates 479.
Table 12
Index of volume of stocks of food and animal feeding-stuffs, raw materials and
petroleum products in the United Kingdom(1)
End of December 1949 = 100
All stocks
Food(2)— Total
.:
Cereals, oilcake, etc. Other food Beverages
Raw materials (3)—
Total
Steel-making materials
:
1949
1950
1951
March
June
September December
March
June
September December
January (provisional)
88
93
102
100
92
22
39
89
86
83
93
100
2 2480
79
78
75
100
88888
97
58885
100
91
95
99
100
80
80
- 80
96
100
93
104
99
100
109
97
488888
85
89
79
2 2885
79
75
79
74
74 71 75 81
:
Non-ferrous metals
Timber
Textiles
Pyrites, sulphur, etc.
Fertilizers
Paper and paper making
materials
...
108
Miscellaneous
Tobacco
105
Petroleum products
(1) Stocks
Pagif commodity have been revalued at the appropriate
f.o.b. price prevailing in the last quarter of 1949.
(2) Excluding stocks on farms.
(3) Excluding stocks of pig-iron and steel.
*. *.***. 22 8.5
99
108
100
92
92
91
64
78
102
100
102
103
102
81
97
110
100
.94
98
.91
76
.90
100
83
71
97
107
114
100
93
95
88
101
103
100
88
106
42
56
74.
100
48
34
104
106
100
83
78
106
109
100
100
102
88
77
84
100
95
85
5 288 6 8
85
80
84
72
94
87
96
91
66
109
113
69
97
95
8 888 88
83
79
75
67
90
68
105
104
97
104
104
100
100
104
101
103
101
587
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