Saturday, October 30 2010 21:21
Last week Armenian banks provided loans worth 16.8 bln AMD and $21.2 mln
ArmInfo. Last week (18-24 Octoberl) Armenian banks provided loans worth 16.8 bln AMD and $21.2 mln, the press service of the Central Bank of Armenia told ArmInfo.
According to the source, over the current week (25-29 October) the banks bought $77.4 mln at the average exchange rate of 358,68 AMD/$1, and sold $85.5 mln at the average exchange rate of 359.95 AMD/$1 in the intrabank currency market (transactions with clients).
Over the given period currency purchase and sale operations worth $21.6 mln were carried out at the average exchange rate of 358,98 AMD/$1 at NASDAQ OMX Armenia; the biggest volume was registered on 25 and 27 October - $7 mln and $5.1 mln respectively.
Currency purchase and sale operations worth $1.1 mln were carried out at the average exchange rate of 359,76 AMD/$1 in the interbank currency market from 25 till 29 October.
To note, as of 1 July 2010, summary provision of crediting of the Armenian banking system amounted to 838.9 bln AMD or $2.3 bln, having increased by 2,3% over Q2 2010 (against 6,7% growth over Q1 2010 and almost 3% decline over Q2 2009), and by 29,3% as compared with the same period of 2009.