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.)
Mar 2000
01-03 Mar	1,627	50	0	36	0	0	86	12.06
06-10 Mar	1,606	0	1	25	0	0	26	12.42
13-17 Mar	1,739	0	145	89	0	0	234	12.27
20-24 Mar	1,670	0	11	994	0	0	1,005	10.91
27-31 Mar	1,819	0	2	184	0	0	186	10.81
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
Oct-99	1,125	40	308	970	0	0	1,318	12.52
Nov-99	722	193	288	2,468	0	0	2,949	12.20
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
SMC : Secondary Market Cell of the Bank of Mauritius.					1 Includes Bills sold Over The Counter (OTC).