The balance sheet of the Lebanese Central Bank, BDL, posted a 1.22% monthly increase in total assets to $103.57B in January 2017.
Foreign assets, constituting 39.63% of total assets, inched up by 0.82% from end of 2016, to $41.04B. Moreover, securities portfolio (24.86% of the total assets) dropped 0.38% to $25.74B. Meanwhile, the value of gold reserves (10.73% of total assets) grew by 3.77%, over the same period, to $11.11B, following the 5.13% monthly increase in international gold prices during January 2017.
As for loans to the financial sector (6.06% share of total assets), they declined 1.89% to $6.23B in the first month of 2017.
On the liabilities side, financial sector deposits, with a share of 80.35% of the total, ticked down 1.12% y-t-d to $83.22B in January 2017. On the contrary, public sector deposits (6.81% share of liabilities) grew by 27.99% from December 2016 to reach $7.06B in January this year.
BDL’s Total Assets in January (in $B)
Source: BDL