International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

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29 Oct 2010

International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released today (Friday) the analytical data on the Hong Kong SAR's foreign currency reserves and foreign currency liquidity as at the end of September 2010 (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 2011 is announced below:

Reference Month Release Date
January 2011 28 February 2011
February 2011 31 March 2011
March 2011 29 April 2011
April 2011 31 May 2011
May 2011 30 June 2011
June 2011 29 July 2011
July 2011 31 August 2011
August 2011 30 September 2011
September 2011 31 October 2011
October 2011 30 November 2011
November 2011 30 December 2011
December 2011 31 January 2012

Annex

For media enquiries, please contact:
Rhonda Lam, Communications Chief, at 2878 1480 or
Natalie Wu, Officer (Communications), at 2878 8246

Hong Kong Monetary Authority
29 October 2010

 

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 2010, the scheduled dates for issuing the press releases are as follows:

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