Armenian banks invested 140.3 billion drams in state coupon bonds

YEREVAN, March 17. /ARKA/. In January Armenian banks invested about 140.3 billion drams in state coupon bonds which is more than the indicator of December – 3.5%. The report of CB Armenia “Summary of monetary-credit indicators” states that in total residents of Armenia invested over 176.9 billion drams in state coupon bonds (growth by 2.6% versus December).

In total, the share of banking investments in state coupon bonds was 79.3%. The share of investments of CB Armenia was about 11.2% and non-banking agents, dealers and investors – 9.5%.

Total investments (residents and non-residents) in state coupon bonds were 177.4 billion drams which is by 2.5% more then the December indicator. –0–

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