Table 17: Secondary Market Activity
	Holdings	Amount	Amount	Amount	Amount of	Amount of	Total	Weighted
	of SMC	of Bills	of Bills	of Bills	Government	Government	volume of	average
	as at end	transacted	purchased	sold by	Securities	Securities	secondary	yield on
	of period	outside	by	SMC ^1	transacted	sold by	market	Bills sold
		SMC	SMC		outside SMC	SMC	transactions	by SMC
		(Rs million)						(% p.a.)
Aug 1999
2-6 Aug	1,262	0	50	469	0	0	519	12.02
9-13 Aug	1,308	75	0	106	0	0	181	12.60
16-20 Aug	1,192	100	166	408	0	0	674	12.42
23-27 Aug	1,593	40	15	448	0	0	503	12.43
30-31 Aug	1,573	0	0	22	0	0	22	12.78
Jul-98	938	72	621	120	150	0	963	9.14
Aug-98	957	193	25	514	0	0	732	9.36
Sep-98	428	406	0	542	0	0	948	9.97
Oct-98	1,009	330	53	372	164	0	919	9.91
Nov-98	1,579	128	0	476	0	0	604	11.30
Dec-98	1,301	55	69	914	0	0	1,038	12.40
Jan-99	1,361	111	25	850	0	0	986	12.54
Feb-99	1,562	90	0	487	22	0	599	12.43
Mar-99	1,255	97	169	783	0	0	1,049	12.63
Apr-99	1,208	123	0	716	0	0	839	12.73
May-99	1,349	191	84	782	0	0	1,057	12.58
Jun-99	1,320	90	135	1,824	0	0	2,049	12.61
Jul-99	1,522	50	1	566	0	0	617	12.54
Aug-99	1,573	215	231	1,452	0	0	1,898	12.31
SMC : Secondary Market Cell of the Bank of Mauritius.					^1 Includes Bills sold Over The Counter (OTC).