The balance sheet of the Lebanese Central Bank (BdL) revealed that total assets reached $94.95B in April 2016, recording a 0.40% monthly increase from March’s 2016 level and a 6.91% rise from April 2015’s level.
Although foreign assets, constituting 37.95% of total assets, fell by 1.53% to $36.03B, securities’ portfolio (21.30% of the total assets) added 2.67% month-on-month (m-o-m) to $20.23B by the end of April 2016. Similarly, the value of gold reserves (12.20% of total assets) grew by 1.81% from March’s 2016 level to $11.59B, following the 5.59% monthly increase in international gold prices during April 2016.
As for loans to the financial sector (5.64% share of total assets), they barely increased from $5.33B in March 2016 to $5.36B in the fourth month of the year.
On the liabilities side, financial sector deposits, with a share of 79.48% of the total, ticked down 0.32% (m-o-m) to $75.47B in April 2016. Meanwhile, public sector deposits (5.85% of total liabilities) inched up by 11.63% from March 2016 to reach $6.12B at the end of April 2016.
BDL’s Total Assets in April (in $B)
Source: BDL