According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, broad money supply retreated in June. As total loans increased at a faster pace than total deposits, the overall loan-to-deposit ratio of the banking sector rose from a month earlier.

Money supply

Currency in circulation dropped 1.8% whereas demand deposits grew 15.5%. M1 thus increased 12.1% from one month earlier. Concurrently, quasi-monetary liabilities fell 2.7%. The sum of these two items, i.e. M2, decreased 0.9% to MOP488.8 billion. On an annual basis, M1 and M2 rose 12.0% and 1.1% respectively. The share of Pataca (MOP) in M2 stood at 27.2%, up 0.5 percentage points from a month ago or 3.2 percentage points from a year earlier. The share of Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) in M2 was 50.0%, down 0.9 percentage points month-to-month but up 0.6 percentage points year-on-year. The share of Chinese Yuan (CNY) was 11.4%, kept virtually stable month-to-month but down 5.6 percentage points year-on-year. The share of United States Dollar (USD) was 9.2%, up 0.4 percentage points month-to-month or 1.6 percentage points year-on-year.

Deposits

Resident deposits decreased 0.9% from the preceding month to MOP477.4 billion. Of which, MOP and USD deposits increased at respective rates of 1.1% and 3.9%. HKD and CNY deposits decreased 2.8% and 0.9% respectively while other foreign currency deposits kept virtually stable. Non-resident deposits grew 7.1% to MOP266.0 billion. Public sector deposits with the banking sector increased 2.5% to MOP121.7 billion. As a result, total deposits with the banking sector rose 1.9% from a month earlier to MOP865.0 billion. The shares of MOP, HKD, CNY and USD in total deposits were 18.3%, 41.3%, 13.7% and 22.5% respectively.

Loans

Domestic loans to the private sector increased 2.4% from a month ago to MOP376.0 billion. Among which, MOP100.7 billion was MOP-denominated, MOP247.0 billion was denominated in HKD, MOP3.1 billion was denominated in CNY and MOP22.8 billion was denominated in USD, representing 26.8%, 65.7%, 0.8% and 6.1% of the total respectively. Analysed by economic sector, “transport, warehouse and communications”, “education” and “restaurants, hotels and similar” increased at respective rates of 18.6%, 18.6% and 13.1% compared with a quarter ago, whereas “exhibition and conference” and “gaming” dropped 35.1% and 9.3% respectively.

External loans grew 4.8% to MOP385.7 billion; of which, loans denominated in MOP, HKD, CNY and USD accounted for 1.6% (MOP6.1 billion), 22.2% (MOP85.6 billion), 19.7% (MOP75.8 billion) and 50.6% (MOP195.0 billion) respectively.

Loan-to-deposit ratios

The loan-to-deposit ratio for the resident sector at end-June grew 1.6 percentage points from the previous month to 62.8%. The ratio for both the resident and non-resident sectors also rose 1.4 percentage points to 88.1%.