{"id":97925,"date":"2016-05-13T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2016\/05\/13\/244650\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:23:39","slug":"interest-rates-on-loans-in-march-were-lower-than-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2016\/05\/13\/97925\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest rates on loans in March were lower than in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 13. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Interest rates on loans provided by commercial banks to private persons in 2016 March\u00a0 were slightly lower\u00a0 when compared to April,\u00a0 according to\u00a0 Central Bank of Armenia data.<\/p>\n<p>In March interest rates on loans to individuals in Armenian drams repayable in less than 12 months\u00a0 decreased by 0.9 percentage points to 21.1%, while loans in USD fell by 0.7 percentage points to 14.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Interest rates on loans provided to individuals\u00a0 with a repayment period above 12 months decreased by 0.5 percentage points\u00a0 to 19%, while loans in USD\u00a0 remained unchanged at 15.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Interest rates on mortgage loans in drams remained unchanged at 12.7%, while loans in USD\u00a0 rose by 0.7 percentage points to 13.3%. Interest rates on consumer loans to individuals in drams decreased 0.6 percentage point to 20%, while loans in USD fell by 0.3 percentage points to 15.3%.<\/p>\n<p>In general, in March, interest rates on loans in drams repayable in less than 12 months decreased by 0.07 percentage points to 19.11%, while loans in USD fell by 0.26 percentage points to 7.96%.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time interest rates on loans in drams repayable in more than 12 months decreased 0.56 percentage points to 18.21%, and loans in USD\u00a0 increased by 1.91 percentage points up to 10.93%.<br \/>\nIn March, the Central bank cut its refinancing rate from 8.5% to 8.25%. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest rates on loans provided by commercial banks to private persons in 2016 March  were slightly lower  when compared to April,  according to  Central Bank of Armenia data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,12790,13168,12455],"class_list":{"0":"post-97925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-commercial-banks","11":"tag-interest-rates","12":"tag-loans"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}