YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. Armenian commercial banks purchased about $87 mln at a weighted average rate of 479.98 drams per $1 in intra-banking foreign exchange market on March 9 to 13, the press service of the Central Bank reported.
In the same period, about 7.1 mln euros and about 578.7 mln rubles were purchased on the intra-banking forex market at weighted average exchange rates of 515.62 drams per €1 and 7.8 drams per ruble respectively.
At the same time, about $76.85mln, €15.7mln and about 197 mln rubles were sold on the intra-banking forex market at weighted average exchange rates of 481.64 drams, 521.11drams and 7.99 drams respectively.
Dram loans extended by Armenian banks during the week before (March 2-8) totaled about 30.9 bln drams; dollar loans amounted to a total of $51.5mln. ($1=481.28drams). –0–
