With the number of Covid-19 patients on a rapid rise Latvia’s largest hospitals are overloaded, which suggests it is entirely possible a state of emergency may be declared in them. One of the reasons is the limited number of available medical personnel possible to send to assist the overloaded intensive care wings, Latvian Hospital Association’s…
The National Bank of Kyrgyzstan conducted two interventions last week. At least $40.7 million has been spent on maintaining the som’s exchange rate. For the first time in five and a half months, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic entered the foreign exchange market on September 27. Then it sold $33.1 million. The National…
The share of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Uzbek banks’ portfolios has tripled. As of January 1, it stood at 2.1%, while as of August 1 it had grown to 6.2%, Abrorhuja Turdialiev, deputy chair of Uzbekistan’s Central Bank, reported. “This has happened following the rapid growth of the loan portfolio in the previous three years.…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) purchased $15 million on the interbank foreign exchange market last week. According to the results of foreign exchange interventions, the National Bank bought $15 million on the interbank foreign exchange market between September 27 and October 1. Since the start of 2021, the National Bank has sold $197 million…
Ukrainian hryvnia is among the ten best-performing currencies in the world against the U.S. dollar in 2021. As Bloomberg reports, Seychelles rupee ranks first as it has strengthened by 60% due to the resumption of the tourism business. This is the best result among 146 currencies worldwide. Seychelles rupee is followed by Zambian kwacha and…
A new factory of Italian bread and semi-finished products, Romiveria, has opened in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi. About EUR 1 million was invested in Romiveria, which currently employs 35 people. At the first stage the factory will produce various types of piadina, a thin Italian flatbread, and in the second stage Romiveria will…
The electricity tariff for the population will not change until June 2022, the Minister of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstan Doskul Bekmurzaev has announced at a press conference. He clarified that the new tariffs for non-domestic consumers would come into force on October 15. “Tariffs for the population remained at the same level. They will…