International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

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31 Oct 2006

International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released today (Tuesday) analytical data on the Hong Kong SAR's foreign currency reserves and foreign currency liquidity at the end of September 2006 (Annex). These data are published monthly in the Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity in accordance with the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standard.

Release calendar

The release calendar of the Liquidity Template for 2007 is announced below:

Reference Month Release Date
January 2007 28 February 2007
February 2007 30 March 2007
March 2007 30 April 2007
April 2007 31 May 2007
May 2007 29 June 2007
June 2007 31 July 2007
July 2007 31 August 2007
August 2007 28 September 2007
September 2007 31 October 2007
October 2007 30 November 2007
November 2007 31 December 2007
December 2007 31 January 2008


Annex

For further enquiries, please contact:
Hing-fung Wong, Officer (Press), at 2878 1802 or
Thomas Chan, Senior Manager (Press), at 2878 1480

Hong Kong Monetary Authority
31 October 2006

 

At present, four press releases relating to the Exchange Fund's data are issued by the HKMA each month. Three of these releases are issued to disseminate monetary data in accordance with the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). The fourth press release, on the Exchange Fund's Abridged Balance Sheet and Currency Board Account, is made in accordance with the HKMA's policy of maintaining a high level of transparency. For the month of October 2006, the scheduled dates for issuing the press releases are as follows:

9 October
(Issued)
SDDS International Reserves (Hong Kong's Latest Foreign Currency Reserve Assets Figures)
16 October
(Issued)
SDDS Analytical Accounts of the Central Bank (Analytical Accounts of the Exchange Fund)
27 October
(Issued)
Exchange Fund Abridged Balance Sheet and Currency Board Account
31 October SDDS Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity
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