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FEDERATION OF EURO-ASIAN STOCK EXCHANGES ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 2011 TIRANA STOCK EXCHANGE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS Political Environment Real Sector • Nominal GDP 2010 (in billion lek) (MoF estimations) 1,228.1 • Real growth of GDP 2010 (%) (MoF estimations) + 4.1 • Consumer Price Index (monthly change %), December’10/November ’10 +2.2 • Consumer Price Index (annual change %), December’ 10/Decembere’09 +3.4 • Unemployment rate Q3 2010 (%) 13.52 Foreign Trade • Export of goods (in million lek) 161,505 • Import of goods (in million lek) 478,708 • Trade balance - 317,203 Public Finance (preliminary) • Total revenues (in million lek) 324,891 • Total expenditures (in million lek) 361,535 • Fiscal Balance (in million lek) -36,644 Financial Markets • Average exchange rates EURO 138.81 USD 104.95 • Yield of 3-month t-bills (%) 5.28 • Yield of 6-month t-bills (%) 6.41 • Yield of 12-month t-bills (%) 7.08 Consumer Price Index In December 2010 the Consumer Price Index was 109.5% against December 2007. The CPI in this month has increased 2.2% compared to the previous month. The annual change of CPI for December was 3.4%. In December price of diesel signed an increase of 4.2% and the price of petrol increased by 4.0%. The index of “Food and non alcoholic beverage” group signed the biggest increase of 4.6%; while the monthly changes price index in the other groups varies from +0.1 per cent to + 1.9 percent. Exchange Rate During December 2010 the exchange rate of our national currency with Euro has decreased by 0.01 percent compared with the previous month, and has increased with the American currency by 3.6 percent compared with the previous month. At the beginning of December we could exchange 1 Euro with 138.74 Lek and at the end 1 Euro was exchange with 138.77 Lek, while 1 USD was exchanged with 106.01 Lek. At the end of this month 1 USD was exchanged with 104.00 Lek. Total Revenues Total revenues, during December 2010 reached 324.9 billion Lek, or 2.6% less than the forecast; or 8.7% more than the same month last year. Tax revenues in the end of this period were 288.8 billion Lek, or 3.4% less than the forecast; or 6.6% more than the same month last year. During December’10 the average exchange rates were: EURO138.81 Lek USD 104.95 Lek Total Expenditures Total expenditures were 361.5 billion Lek at the end of December 2010, or 2.8% less than the forecast (4.8% less than last year). Current expenditures were 1.6% less than the forecast and 5.6% more than the same month last year, while capital expenditures were 6.1% less than the forecast (29.8% less than the same month of 2009). Key Information Contacts Bank of Albania www.bankofalbania.org Ministry of Finance www.minfin.gov.al Albanian Institute of Statistics www.instat.gov.al Albanian Financial Supervisory Authority www.amf.gov.al Ministry of Economy www.mete.gov.al PAGE 120 Information obtained from the Exchange.