Economics

Asian main indexes values for 20 January: The value of Japanese NIKKEI down by 0.38% to 28523.26 points, Japanese TOPIX down by 0.34% to 1849.58 points. Chinese Shanghai Composite up by 0.47% to 3583.09 points, and HANG SENG up by 1.08% to 29962.47 points. The Nikkei-225 Stock Average is a price-weighted average of 225 top-rated...

The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 20 January, USD exchange rate down by 0.12 drams to 519.19 drams. EUR exchange rate up by 0.17 drams to 629.57 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.04 drams to 7.08 drams. GBP exchange rate up by 4.35 drams to 711.08 drams. The Central Bank has set the following ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in Armenia in 2020 with record investment of €167 million for projects in energy, banking and transport and through trade finance support, the EBRD Armenia Office told Armenpress. The Bank helped to address the immediate and longer-ter...

The State Revenue Committee of Armenia has published the list of 1000 major taxpayers of 2020 and the total amount of taxes paid by them to the state budget. The list is topped by Grand Tobacco which paid 50 billion 671 million 32 thousand drams in taxes in 2020. The second one is Gazprom Armenia with a total of 45 billion 548 m...

The prices of petroleum and diesel fuel in Armenia have declined by 12.2% and 23.0% respectively in December 2020 compared to December 2019, the Statistical Committee reported. The decline of prices of petroleum and diesel fuel in January-December 2020 compared to January-December 2019 comprised 16.7% and 20.5% respectively. How...

European main indexes values for 19 January: The value of German DAX down by 0.24% to 13815.06 points, French CAC 40 down by 0.33% to 5598.61 points, British FTSE down by 0.11% to 6712.95 points, and Russian RTSI down by 0.29% to 1470.63 points. The German Stock Index is a total return index of 30 selected German blue chip stock...

Non-ferrous and minor metals prices for 19 January: The price of aluminum down by 0.73% to $1984.00, copper price down by 0.07% to $7984.00, lead price up by 0.25% to $2004.00, nickel price up by 0.58% to $18102.00, tin price up by 1.18% to $21324.00, zinc price down by 1.25% to $2686.00, molybdenum price down by 1.78% to $21936...

Precious metals prices for 19 January: The price of gold futures is up by 0.64% to $1848.30, silver futures is up by 1.15% to $25.50, while platinum futures is up by 0.14% to $1103.40. The measurement unit is 1 troy ounce (31.1 grams). New York’s NYMEХ (New York Merchantile Exchange) is a US futures market founded in 1882. Curre...

Oil prices for 19 January: WTI Crude Oil (Light Sweet) price at NYMEХ Stock Exchange up by 2.09% to $53.36 per barrel. Brent Crude Oil price at London’s IСE Stock Exchange up by 2.40% to $56.30 per barrel, “Armenpress” reports. Barrel is the unit of measurement of oil volume. One barrel equals to 159.98 liter. New York’s NYMEХ (...

USA main indexes values for 19 January: The value of Dow Jones up by 0.38% to 30930.52 points, S&P 500 up by 0.81% to 3798.91 points, Nasdaq up by 1.53% to 13197.18 points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. It measures ...