Lithuania’s central bank said on Wednesday it had ordered the country’s sixth-largest bank, Snoras, to raise capital and imposed limits on its risk-taking… Snoras had to shore up capital to cushion risks, mainly from operations with non-residents, but the bank was stable… A Snoras bank spokesman said the bank’s capital adequacy ratio was 8.42 percent at the end of the second quarter, compared to the minimum requirement of 8.0 percent.
Oops. 8.42 means should the bank’s equity decline 5%, it will brake the minimum requirement. In the last 12 month Snoras lost 9.32mn litas or 1.6% of equity. More to follow.
State debt may exceed 60 percent of gross domestic product in 2011, Rimsevics said. The debt ratio may fall below 60 percent the following year in time for meeting criteria to adopt the euro in 2014, he said. State debt was below 10 percent of GDP in 2007.
Dear Mr. Rimsevics, I am decently asking how could it be you have mixed up this statement with previous credo about Debt/GDP ratio (<60%). Please let me know where my interpretations are wrong when I compare the above words with this interview.
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Imagine Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, with 546 733 inhabitants, and only 50 new apartments sold in July. 50 – like one bottle of wine per day in the city’s most popular restaurant. Balsas.lt author suspects seasonalities.
However, in my opinion this factor is scrubby. There’s a winter season approaching, and many people already now start thinking how to maintain debts and public utility bills, new electricity prices and so on. Many apartments waiting to be sold now will become a true load for real estate brokers in winter and as a consequence of winterizing (and many other factors) prices is likely to be falling.
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