YEREVAN, July 15./ARKA/. The portion of idle and written- off assets of Armenia’s residents inched up by 0.38 p.p. in May from April to 5.69%, the Central Bank said Monday.
Commerce accounted for the highest number of idle assets –nearly 1.33% (against 1.29% in April); consumer loans accounted for 0.95% (0.91% in April); construction –for about 0.69% (0.67%).
At the same time, processing industry accounted for 0.71%, agricultural sphere –0.41%, mortgage lending -0.46%, catering –0.30%. There are no idle assets in financial sphere.
The aggregate volume of the assets at Armenia’s commercial banks totaled 2594,8 billion drams as of May 2013.
As of May 2013 there are 21 commercial banks in Armenia. .($1 – 409.93 drams).—0