

YEREVAN, August 15. /ARKA/. The Ministry of Economy of Armenia denied the information that its official website has been broken by Azerbaijani hackers.
On August 13 President of Smart Systems company Stepan Aslanyan told reporters the site of Economy Ministry in line with other official sites was broken by Azerbaijani hackers on Friday and had not been recovered that day.
“We announce that the site of the Armenian Economy Ministry has not been attacked by hackers, namely Azerbaijani ones, and has not been broken. All information placed on the site is unchanged,” the press-service of the Ministry told “Novosti-Armenia”.
At the same time the press-service reports that on August 14, the site www.mineconomy.am was unavailable for some two hours due to technical reasons which were debugged in a short period by the Ministry’s experts.
“The defects could not have any negative influence on users. The official website of the RA Ministry of Economy is available,” was stressed at the Ministry. G. S. –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 16/03/2010 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Currency | Buy | Sell |
| USD | 396.5 Armenian Development Bank |
396 Artsakhbank |
| Euro | 540 Ameriabank ArmBusinessBank Armenian Development Bank ProCreditBank |
546 ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK Araratbank “ArmSwissBank” |
| RUR | 13.32 “ArmSwissBank” |
13.5 ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK ProCreditBank |
| 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 |