Table 18: 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.)
June 2001
1 June	887	0	0	255	0	0	255	9.98
4-8 June	818	0	0	25	0	0	25	11.17
11-15 June	1,154	0	1	132	0	0	133	11.27
18-22 June	1,179	0	60	32	0	0	92	10.97
25-29 June	1,350	0	40	70	0	0	110	10.80


Jun-99	1,320	90	135	1,824	0	0	2,049	12.61
Sep-99	863	109	570	1,820	0	0	2,499	11.58
Dec-99	2,052	14	522	597	0	0	1,133	12.46
Jan-00	1,485	0	8	674	0	0	682	12.55
Feb-00	1,912	20	135	681	0	0	836	11.39
Mar-00	1,819	50	159	1,328	0	0	1,537	11.04
Apr-00	1,753	6	65	1,153	0	0	1,224	10.91
May-00	1,031	0	117	184	0	0	301	11.19
Jun-00	1,852	61	357	615	0	0	1,015	9.91
Jul-00	2,140	192	1	452	0	0	645	11.00
Aug-00	1,770	71	1	441	0	0	514	9.77
Sep-00	1,626	19	3	245	0	0	267	10.27
Oct-00	1,645	37	111	220	0	0	368	10.71
Nov-00	674	13	4	3,493	0	0	3,510	10.14
Dec-00	1,441	0	2	397	0	0	399	11.77
Jan-01	1,808	0	101	646	0	0	747	11.35
Feb-01	1,409	0	5	413	0	0	418	11.76
Mar-01	1,046	0	24	520	0	0	544	11.23
Apr-01	755	0	7	463	0	0	470	11.62
May-01	1,199	50	1	188	0	0	239	11.55
Jun-01	1,350	0	101	514	0	0	615	10.54

SMC: Secondary Market Cell of the Bank of Mauritius.					¹ Includes Bills sold Over The Counter (OTC).