Issue #1118 Business

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Issue no: 1118/164

• JANUARY 22 - 24, 2019

• PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY

PRICE: GEL 2.50

In this week’s issue... Weekly Entrepreneurial News @entrepreneur.ge NEWS PAGE 2

Georgia’s GDP Growth Softens at Year-End, Exports, Remittances, & Tourism Continue to Expand

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ISET PAGE 4

Georgia-Gazprom Agreement on Gas Transit to Armenia Expires

ON GEORGIA'S Q3 2018 CURRENT ACCOUNT SURPLUS Tbilinomics reports on what the surplus actually means

BUSINESS PAGE 5

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WorldAtlas Lists Georgia among Countries with Worst Education Systems BY THEA MORRISON

HUAWEI Presents HUAWEI P Smart 2019, Sporting the Latest Technologies & Design BUSINESS PAGE 7

German Bundestag Includes Georgia on Safe Country List

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head of the UN-initiated International Day of Education on January 24, international organization WorldAtlas has published a list of countries with the worst education systems, which includes Georgia. On the list of countries with poor education, which is led by Equatorial Guinea, Myanmar and the Central African Republic, Georgia takes 25th place. Continued on page 2

POLITICS PAGE 11

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Markets As of 18ͲJanͲ2019

w/w

m/m

Price

w/w

Bank of Georgia (BGEO LN)

GBP 15.50

Ͳ1,0%

+14,1%

GEOROG 04/21

101.30 (YTM 6.12%)

+0,6%

+0,6%

Georgia Capital (CGEO LN)

STOCKS

GBP 10.30

+0,7%

+1,5%

GEORG 04/21

105.68 (YTM 4.17%)

+0,2%

+0,3%

GHG (GHG LN) TBC Bank Group (TBCG LN)

COMMODITIES Crude Oil, Brent (US$/bbl) Gold Spot (US$/OZ)

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Price

BONDS

m/m

GBP 2.05

+4,6%

Ͳ8,9%

GRAIL 07/22

104.23 (YTM 6.37%)

+0,4%

+0,4%

GBP 14.62

+0,4%

+4,0%

GEBGG 07/23

97.77 (YTM 6.58%)

+0,1%

+0,1%

CURRENCIES

Price

w/w

m/m

62,70

+3,7%

+11,4%

GEL / USD

2,6596

Ͳ0,3%

Ͳ0,3%

1 282,11

Ͳ0,6%

+2,6%

GEL / EUR

3,0226

Price

Ͳ1,2%

w/w

Ͳ0,0%

m/m

Ͳ0,0%

+1,6%

GEL / GBP

3,4242

INDICES

Price

w/w

m/m

GEL / CHF

2,6704

Ͳ1,4%

FTSE 100

6 968,33

+0,7%

+4,0%

GEL / RUB

0,0402

+1,0%

+1,8%

FTSE 250

18 764,47

+1,2%

+7,3%

GEL / TRY

0,4991

+2,2%

+0,2%

DAX

11 205,54

+2,9%

+4,3%

GEL / AZN

1,5680

Ͳ0,3%

Ͳ0,1%

DOW JONES

24 706,35

+3,0%

+4,4%

GEL / AMD

0,0055

Ͳ

NASDAQ MSCI EM EE

Ͳ0,6%

Ͳ

7 157,23

+2,7%

+5,5%

GEL / UAH

0,0952

+0,2%

Ͳ0,4%

164,07

+1,9%

+5,7%

EUR / USD

0,8800

+0,9%

Ͳ0,0%

1 018,00

+1,7%

+5,7%

GBP / USD

0,7767

Ͳ0,3%

Ͳ1,8%

SP 500

2 670,71

+2,9%

+4,9%

CHF / USD

0,9954

+1,2%

+0,3%

MSCI FM

2 627,08

+1,0%

+5,2%

RUB / USD

66,1807

Ͳ1,1%

GT Index (GEL)

1 582,68

Ͳ

Ͳ

TRY / USD

5,3276

Ͳ2,5%

Ͳ0,3%

GT Index (USD)

1 208,13

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Ͳ

AZN / USD

1,6958

Ͳ0,2%

Ͳ0,2%

MSCI EM

Ͳ1,8%


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