Hong Kong's official foreign-currency reserve assets rose to US$112.4 billion at the end of October, up from US$112.1 billion a month earlier.

Including unsettled forward contracts, the foreign-currency reserve assets of US$112.4 billion represent about seven times the currency in circulation or 42% of Hong Kong dollar M3

Hong Kong is the world's fifth-largest holder of foreign-currency reserves, after Japan, the Mainland, Taiwan and Korea.