Country Report Hong Kong June 2011

Data and charts: Monthly data

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Exchange rate HK$:US$ (av)
2009	7.76	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75	7.75
2010	7.76	7.77	7.76	7.76	7.79	7.79	7.78	7.77	7.77	7.76	7.76	7.77
2011	7.78	7.79	7.79	7.77	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Deposit rate (av; %)
2009	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2010	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2011	0.0	0.0	0.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Lending rate (av; %)
2009	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
2010	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
2011	5.0	5.0	5.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Money supply M1 (% change, year on year)
2009	10.5	11.1	16.3	18.1	26.6	28.2	34.7	37.9	52.4	47.0	46.6	34.4
2010	30.6	33.1	33.3	38.4	22.2	15.4	12.9	13.1	20.1	22.2	8.2	9.2
2011	14.2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Money supply M2 (% change, year on year)
2009	4.7	2.8	5.6	5.6	7.8	9.8	9.4	9.7	9.4	8.8	8.9	5.2
2010	5.1	6.4	6.0	7.9	2.2	1.9	3.3	4.1	6.1	8.8	5.8	7.4
2011	9.1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Retail sales (volume; % change, year on year)
2009	5.4	-13.9	-9.2	-5.4	-6.4	-4.2	-5.2	-0.9	1.1	8.2	10.0	11.4
2010	3.2	31.5	17.3	12.4	16.3	12.0	16.1	14.9	15.9	19.7	15.4	16.0
2011	23.7	5.0	20.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Hang Seng Bank stockmarket index (end-period; Jul 31st 1964=100)
2009	13,278	12,812	13,576	15,521	18,171	18,379	20,573	19,724	20,955	21,753	21,822	21,873
2010	20,122	20,609	21,239	21,109	19,765	20,129	21,030	20,536	22,358	23,096	23,008	23,035
2011	23,447	23,338	23,528	23,721	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Consumer prices (av; % change, year on year)
2009	3.1	0.8	1.2	0.6	0.1	-0.9	-1.5	-1.6	0.5	2.2	0.5	1.3
2010	1.0	2.7	2.0	2.4	2.5	2.8	1.4	3.0	2.5	2.5	2.9	3.1
2011	3.6	3.7	4.6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Unemployment rate (%)
2009	4.3	4.7	5.1	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.8	5.9	5.7	5.2	4.9	4.7
2010	4.5	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.7	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.4	4.2	3.9	3.7
2011	3.5	3.3	3.4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total exports fob (US$ m)
2009	24,209	18,305	22,633	25,680	26,368	27,240	27,391	27,519	29,144	31,065	30,206	28,998
2010	28,637	23,491	29,858	31,207	32,649	34,356	33,663	37,334	36,084	35,336	35,209	32,545
2011	36,458	29,252	36,125	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total imports cif (US$ m)
2009	23,277	21,298	24,978	27,790	27,785	29,367	30,187	30,338	32,904	33,541	32,880	33,312
2010	32,438	26,021	34,867	35,747	35,870	38,285	37,586	38,868	39,232	38,205	38,240	38,146
2011	38,510	32,476	41,269	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Trade balance fob-cif (US$ m)
2009	932	-2,993	-2,345	-2,110	-1,417	-2,127	-2,796	-2,819	-3,760	-2,476	-2,674	-4,314
2010	-3,802	-2,530	-5,010	-4,539	-3,222	-3,929	-3,923	-1,534	-3,148	-2,870	-3,031	-5,601
2011	-2,052	-3,224	-5,144	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Foreign-exchange reserves excl gold (US$ m)
2009	181,652	177,030	186,226	193,351	205,057	206,933	218,038	223,211	226,829	240,012	256,180	255,768
2010	256,985	258,157	258,752	259,169	256,098	256,713	260,646	261,319	266,012	266,967	265,962	268,637
2011	273,087	272,594	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Sources: IMF, International Financial Statistics; Haver Analytics.

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