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.)
                 
Sep 1999                
 2-3 Sep       1,841 0 0 75 0 0 75 12.55
6-10 Sep       1,710 0 50 188 0 0 238 11.84
13-17 Sep       1,489 57 420 665 0 0 1,142 11.14
20-24 Sep       1,229 50 100 629 0 0 779 12.15
27-30 Sep          863 2 0 263 0 0 265 10.88
                 
                 
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 1,437 0 0 1,883 12.31
Sep-99          863 109 570 1,820 0 0 2,499 11.58
                 
SMC : Secondary Market Cell of the Bank of Mauritius. 1 Includes Bills sold Over The Counter (OTC).