AUSTRALIAN CURRENCY TRADING SET RECORD IN JANUARY

  Spot volume in the Australian foreign
  exchange market jumped to a record 22.63 billion dlrs a day in
  January from 16.18 billion in December and 8.27 billion a year
  earlier, the Reserve Bank said in its monthly bulletin.
      The previous record was 17.51 billion dlrs last August.
      The peak broke a steady trading trend of 15 to 17 billion
  dlrs a day seen in the second half of 1986.
      Including forward deals, total deliverable volume was 27.01
  billion dlrs a day (13.43 billion against the Australian
  dollar) against 19.56 billion (8.48 billion) in December and
  9.92 billion (5.88 billion) a year earlier, the bank said.
  

