Exciting updates: latest exchange fund bills tender results revealed!
Exciting updates: latest exchange fund bills tender results revealed!
The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority:
Exchange Fund Bills tender results:
Tender date
:
23 April 2024
Paper on offer
:
EF Bills
Issue number
:
Q2417
Issue date
:
24 April 2024
Maturity date
:
24 July 2024
Amount applied
:
HK$164,600 MN
Amount allotted
:
HK$59,076 MN
Average yield accepted
:
4.12 PCT
Highest yield accepted
:
4.19 PCT
Pro rata ratio*
:
About 26 PCT
Average tender yield
:
4.23 PCT
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Tender date
:
23 April 2024
Paper on offer
:
EF Bills
Issue number
:
H2446
Issue date
:
24 April 2024
Maturity date
:
23 October 2024
Amount applied
:
HK$40,764 MN
Amount allotted
:
HK$12,000 MN
Average yield accepted
:
4.21 PCT
Highest yield accepted
:
4.25 PCT
Pro rata ratio*
:
About 13 PCT
Average tender yield
:
4.33 PCT
*"Pro rata ratio" refers to the average percentage of allotment with respect to each tender participant's tendered amount at the "highest yield accepted" level.
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Hong Kong Monetary Authority tenders to be held in the week beginning April 29, 2024:
Tender date
:
30 April 2024
Paper on offer
:
EF Bills
Issue number
:
Q2418
Issue date
:
2 May 2024
Maturity date
:
31 July 2024
Tenor
:
90 Days
Amount on offer
:
HK$58,864 MN
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Tender date
:
30 April 2024
Paper on offer
:
EF Bills
Issue number
:
H2447
Issue date
:
2 May 2024
Maturity date
:
30 October 2024
Tenor
:
181 Days
Amount on offer
:
HK$15,000 MN
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High-level meeting with japanese officials: urgent concerns over fukushima's nuclear contaminated water discharge
The Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Mr Tse Chin-wan, met the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Mr Takahashi Mitsuo, and the Consul-General of Japan in Hong Kong, Mr Kenichi Okada, today (May 3) upon request and discussed about the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water in Japan.
Mr Tse reiterated at the meeting that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has come to the view that there is currently no guarantee from the Japanese authorities that their purification and dilution system can operate continuously and effectively in the long term, and that the discharge will not pose any potential risks to food safety and marine ecology. Safeguarding food safety and public health in Hong Kong is the responsibility of the HKSAR Government, thus corresponding precautionary measures must be taken. The HKSAR Government will closely monitor developments of the discharge, so as to obtain more monitoring and scientific data in order to further examine the impact of the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge on food safety, and keep under review relevant counter measures. Should anomalies be detected, the Government does not preclude further tightening the scope of the import ban.
In response to the Japanese Government's earlier decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water at the Fukushima Nuclear PowerStation into the sea, the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene issued a Food Safety Order which prohibits all aquatic products, sea salt and seaweeds originating from the 10 metropolis/prefectures, namely Tokyo, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Chiba, Gunma, Tochigi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama, from being imported into and supplied in Hong Kong.For other aquatic products, sea salt, and unprocessed or processed seaweed from Japan that are not prohibited from being imported into Hong Kong, the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will conduct comprehensive radiological tests to verify that the radiation levels of these products do not exceed the guideline levels before they are allowed to be supplied in the market.
Besides, all vegetables, fruits, milk, milk beverages and dried milk originating from Fukushima are banned from importing into Hong Kong while such foods originating from the four prefectures nearby Fukushima, i.e. Ibaraki, Tochigi, Chiba and Gunma, are allowed to be imported on the condition that they are accompanied with a radiation certificate and an exporter certificate issued by the Japanese authority. Chilled or frozen game, meat and poultry, and poultry eggs originating from the above five prefectures are allowed to be imported on the condition that they are accompanied with a radiation certificate issued by the Japanese authority which shows the radiation levels do not exceed the guideline levels of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
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