	u k money market offered early assistance the bank of england said it invited an early round of bill offers from discount houses after forecasting a shortage in the system of some billion stg among the main factors affecting liquidity bills maturing in official hands and treasury bill take up will drain some billion stg while exchequer transactions will take out around mln stg and bankers balances below target five mln stg partly offseting these outflows a fall in note circulation will add some mln stg to the system today reuter 
