MACAO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Macao saw its resident deposits reached 206.2 billion patacas (26.1 billion U.S. dollars) in October, an increase of 1.3 percent over the previous month, according to the figures released on Monday by the Monetary Authority of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

    Of the resident deposits, pataca and Hong Kong dollar deposits grew at respective rate of 1 percent and 2.1 percent, while other foreign currency deposits dropped by 0.4 percent, the figures indicated.

    The SAR's non-resident deposits edged up 0.2 percent month-to-month to 72.8 billion patacas (9.2 billion U.S. dollars) in the period, while public sector deposits with local banking sector dropped slightly by 0.1 percent to just 13.4 billion patacas (1.7 billion U.S. dollars), according to the Monetary Authority.

    As a result, the SAR's total deposits with the banking sector increased 1 percent from the previous month to 292.4 billion patacas (37 billion dollars) in October.

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