
YEREVAN, January 29, /ARKA/. NASDAQ OMX Armenia CEO Armen Melikyan convened a news conference today to announce the market results for 2009. He said despite the effects of the global financial crisis, some of the exchange markets in Armenia even saw a growth compared to the previous year.
Thus, corporate bonds, the best performing market of the year, was up 4.7 times to AMD 10.55 billion. Government bonds trading was also active at AMD 2.4 billion, an increase by 43% over 2008, and annual trading in repurchase agreements (REPO), which was only launched in December 2008, exceeded AMD 5 billion. During 2009, currency equivalent to AMD 372.93 billion was traded representing a 10% increase over the same of 2008.
The stock market was the least active exchange market in 2009: total value of trading in stocks on the exchange amounted to AMD 98 million, a decrease by 63% compared to the indicator of 2008. At the end of 2009, market capitalization stood at AMD 53.1 billion. ($1 – 377.45 Drams). -0-
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| Market exchange rates 15/03/2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Currency | Symbol | Unit | Rate | Changes |
| USA Dollar | USD | 1 | 394.48 | 1.86 |
| Euro | EUR | 1 | 540.91 | 0.9 |
| Russian Rоublе | RUR | 1 | 13.44 | 0.04 |
| Favorable еxchange rates of banks 15/03/2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Currency | Buy | Sell |
| USD | 394 ArmBusinessBank |
396 Ameriabank Ardshininvestbank Areximbank-Gazprombank Group “ArmSwissBank” |
| Euro | 540 “ArmSwissBank” |
546 Ameriabank |
| RUR | 13.35 BTA Bank |
13.5 ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK Ameriabank |
| Macroeconomics | ||
|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Term | Figures |
| economic growth,% | 2009-12 | 85.6 |
| GBP, billion AMD | 2009-12 | 3165.5 |
| inflation, % | 2010-01 | 101.7 |
| Budget deficit (proficit), bln AMD | 2009-12 | 148.3 |
| trade deficit, mln USD | 2009-12 | -2606.4 |
| foreign trade turnover, mln USD | 2009-12 | 4001.9 |
| foreign trade turnover, % | 2009-12 | 73 |
| Gross External Reserves, mln. USD | 2009-12 | 2003.41 |
| Monetary base, billion AMD | 2009-12 | 511.7 |
| Money supply, billion AMD | 2009-12 | 815 |
| Financial market | ||
|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Term | Figures |
| Anual interests on loans | ||
| Legal entities in AMD | 2010-01 | 14.8 |
| Legal entities in USD | 2010-01 | 13.5 |
| Individuals in AMD | 2010-01 | 22 |
| Individuals in USD | 2010-01 | 17.6 |
| Anual interests on deposits | ||
| Legal entities in AMD | 2010-01 | 6.5 |
| Legal entities in USD | 2010-01 | 5.4 |
| Individuals in AMD | 2010-01 | 9.1 |
| Individuals in USD | 2010-01 | 5.3 |
| Annual profitability | ||
| state stock of CBA, % | 2008-08 | 8 |
| fiscal stock of Armenia, % | 2010-01 | 8.8 |
| The percents of the CBA | ||
|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Term | Figures |
| Banking rate | 2010-03 | 13 |
| Repo | 2010-03 | 6.5 |
| Credit | 2010-03 | 9.5 |
| Depo | 2010-03 | 3.5 |