According to the balance sheet of the Lebanese Central Bank (BdL), total assets fell by 0.74% to $101.38B in mid- May, compared to $102.14B mid-April.
Foreign assets (38.61% of total assets) and gold reserves (11.20% of the total assets) revealed respective drops of 1.55% and 4.36% between mid-April 2017 and Mid-May of 2017 to $39.14B and $11.36B. Nonetheless, securities’ portfolio (23.74% of the total assets) registered a 0.56% fall over the same period to reach $24.07B by mid-May 2017.
Moreover, loans to the local financial sector (5.79% share of total assets) rose by a monthly 0.97% to $5.87B in mid-May 2017.
On the liabilities side, financial sector deposits, grasping an 80.30% share of the total, marginally rose by 0.15% during the same period to $81.41B. Public sector deposits (5.92% of total liabilities) plummeted by 8.10% to reach $6.96B in mid-May- 2017.
BDL’s Total Assets in mid-May (in $B)
Source: BDL