— INTEREST RATES —
Latest Date Pvs Rate 4 weeks ago
91-day T-bill yield 9.604 20/04/10 9.604 9.682
182-day T-bill yield 10.026 20/04/10 10.155 10.029
252-day T-bill yield 10.381 23/03/10 10.405 10.405
266-day T-bill yield 10.141 13/04/10 10.324 10.324
273-day T-bill yield 10.228 6/04/10 10.339 10.372
350-day T-bill yield 10.315 23/03/10 10.714 10.714
357-day T-bill yield 10.293 20/04/10 10.370 10.370
364-day T-bill yield 10.293 13/04/10 10.436 10.565
Central bank discount rate 8.50 30/07/09 9.0 9.00
Central bank o/n deposit 8.25 22/09/09 8.5 8.50
Central bank o/n lending 9.75 22/09/09 10.0 10.0
Overnight interbank 8.264 19/04/10 8.263 8.270
— MONTHLY DATA —
Month Pvs Yr ago
Countrywide CPI change March 11.8 12.5 11.6
(year-on-year, percent)
Countrywide CPI index March 145.8 144.7 130.4
Urban consumer prices March 12.2 12.8 12.1
(year/year, pct change)
Urban consumer price March 145.1 144.0 129.3
Core inflation March 7.04 6.9 11.2
(year-on-year, percent)
Producer price index Feb 155.0 155.9 137.1
Foreign reserves ($bln) March 34.51 34.32 32.18
Oil output (mln tonnes) Feb 2,625 2,918 2,759
Suez Canal ($mln) March 379.4 334.1 327.9
Money supply M2 Feb 9.43 9.38 8.34
(pct change yr/yr)
— QUARTERLY DATA —
Q2 2009/10* Q1 2009/10 Q2 2008/2009
(*provisional figures)
(all in millions of dollars)
Trade balance -4,688 -7,241 -7,628
Exports 6,126 5,390 5,433
Oil 2,559 2,427 1,871
Non-oil 3,567 2,963 3,562
Imports -10,815 -12,631 -13,061
Net services 2,983 3,302 3,406
Goods and services balance -1,705 -3,940 -4,221
Transfers 1,903 2,459 2,675
Current account balance 198 -1,481 -1,547
Capital account 449 2,837 160
Net errors/omissions -47 696 700
OVERALL BALANCE 560 2,052 -1,006
Q1 2009/10 Q4 2008/09 Q1 2008/09
Tourism receipts ($mln) 2,777 3,230 2,458
Q1 2009/10 Q4 2008/09 Q1 2008/09
GDP growth (percent) 4.9 4.7 5.8
— ANNUAL DATA —
2008/2009* 2007/2008 2006/2007
(*preliminary figures)
Real GDP growth (% change) 4.7 7.2 7.1
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS ($mln) -3,378 5,420 5,282
Trade balance -25,173 -23,415 -16,291
Exports 25,169 29,356 22,018
Oil 11,005 14,473 10,108
Non-oil 14,164 14,883 11,910
Imports -50,342 -52,771 -38,308
Net services 12,502 14,966 11,771
Goods and services -12,671 -8,449 -4,792
Transfers 8,247 9,338 7,061
Current account -4,424 888 2,269
Capital account 1,381 7,558 853
Net errors/omissions -335 -3,025 -2,160
— LONG-TERM CREDIT RATINGS —
Standard & Poors BB plus (non-investment grade)
Moody’s Ba1 (non-investment grade)
Fitch BB plus (non-investment grade)
* The base for the index has been changed to January 2007
1. Fiscal year is July-June.
2. Data from Central Bank except for the following:
Interbank rate – Private banks
CPI & Tourism – Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and
Suez Canal & Oil production – Cabinet Information and
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