YEREVAN, April 5. \/ARKA\/.\u00a0 The Central Bank of Armenia said 23.2% of all outstanding loans provided by local commercial banks to residents went to industrial sector. According to a statement on the Central Bank\u2019s official website, the lending to industry rose to 289.6 billion drams as of late February, which was by 5% more than in the previous month.
\nSome 22.7% of all loans were channeled into trade growing by 3.3% from the previous month to 284.1 billion drams at the end of February.
\nConsumer loans accounted for 18.7% of the combined outstanding credit portfolio of the banks or 234.1\u00a0 billion drams, mortgage loans\u2019 share was\u00a0 8.8%\u00a0 or 110.3\u00a0 billion drams, the share of lending provided to construction sector\u00a0 was 7.7%\u00a0 or\u00a0 96.6\u00a0 billion drams, agricultural lending accounted for 6.1%\u00a0 or 76.7 billion drams and loans provided to transport and communications made 3.3%\u00a0 or 42.3 billion drams\u00a0\u00a0 ($1 \u2013 391.32 drams).\u00a0 -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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