The size of the debt market,as measured by the outstanding amount of Hong Kong dollar debt securities,reached $416.3 billion at end-1999,compared with $390.1 billion at end-1998.

• 按已发行港元债务证券总额计算，本港的债市规模在一九九九年年底达到4,163亿元，而一九九八年年底则为3,901亿元。