Issue #1136 Business

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Issue no: 1136/173

• MARCH 26 - 28, 2019

• PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY

PRICE: GEL 2.50

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

SOCAR Gas Stations Redecorate for Euro 2020 BUSINESS PAGE 3

FOCUS

ON THE NATO VISIT Check out a summary of the Sec Gen's visit

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“IT Flu” in the Armenian Labor Market ISET PAGE 4

AqTushetii: Fighting Rural-Urban Migration BUSINESS PAGE 5

General Assembly From Presidency to Entrepreneurship AEPJ about Jewish Heritage to Be Held in Tbilisi

BY KETEVAN KVARATSKHELIYA

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t is always interesting to find out what spheres the ex-leaders of countries move into after their service to the government. Giorgi Margvelashvili, the former President of Georgia, who held the status of fourth President of the country between November 2013 and December 2018, is a person worth paying attention to even after he completed his service as an official. From presidency, Margvalshvili has moved to entrepreneurship and today, he offering a cottage, built with his own hands, to local tourists, as well as travelers from around the globe. The ex-President constructed the cottage two years ago in the garden of his country house, which he bought for just $2,500 in 2004, in the region of Dusheti. Continued on page 4

BUSINESS PAGE 7

Ambassador of the UAE on Relations, Development & Progress Image source: cbw.ge

BUSINESS PAGE 12 Prepared for Georgia Today Business by

Markets As of 22ͲMarͲ2019

w/w

m/m

Bank of Georgia (BGEO LN)

GBP 16.47

Ͳ3,7%

Ͳ3,0%

GEOROG 04/21

103.56 (YTM 4.93%)

+0,4%

+1,4%

Georgia Capital (CGEO LN)

STOCKS

GBP 10.61

Price

+1,0%

w/w

Ͳ5,6%

m/m

GEORG 04/21

BONDS

105.85 (YTM 3.87%)

Price

+0,1%

Ͳ0,0%

GBP 1.98

Ͳ1,0%

Ͳ5,5%

GRAIL 07/22

107.45 (YTM 5.25%)

+0,3%

+0,7%

GBP 15.62

Ͳ4,9%

+6,3%

GEBGG 07/23

100.06 (YTM 5.98%)

+0,4%

+0,9%

COMMODITIES

Price

w/w

m/m

CURRENCIES

Price

w/w

m/m

Crude Oil, Brent (US$/bbl)

67,03

Ͳ0,2%

Ͳ0,1%

GEL / USD

2,6800

Ͳ0,1%

+0,8%

1 313,68

+0,9%

Ͳ1,2%

Price

w/w

m/m

FTSE 100

7 207,59

Ͳ0,3%

+0,4%

FTSE 250

18 998,46

Ͳ2,5%

Ͳ1,4%

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

Gold Spot (US$/OZ)

INDICES

Ͳ0,3%

+0,2%

GEL / GBP

3,5387

Ͳ0,8%

+1,9%

GEL / CHF

2,6954

+1,0%

+1,3%

GEL / RUB

0,0415

+0,2%

+1,7%

GEL / TRY

0,4653

Ͳ5,3%

Ͳ7,1% +0,7%

GEL / EUR

3,0258

DAX

11 364,17

Ͳ2,8%

Ͳ0,8%

GEL / AZN

1,5809

+0,1%

DOW JONES

25 502,32

Ͳ1,3%

Ͳ2,0%

GEL / AMD

0,0055

Ͳ

7 642,67

Ͳ0,6%

+1,5%

GEL / UAH

0,0997

+0,5%

+1,2%

167,16

+0,9%

+0,9%

EUR / USD

0,8849

+0,2%

+0,3%

1 059,63

GBP / USD

0,7570

NASDAQ MSCI EM EE

Ͳ

+0,2%

+0,1%

+0,6%

Ͳ1,2%

SP 500

2 800,71

Ͳ0,8%

+0,3%

CHF / USD

0,9936

Ͳ0,8%

Ͳ0,7%

MSCI FM

2 730,47

+0,9%

+0,5%

RUB / USD

64,6534

Ͳ0,2%

Ͳ1,1%

GT Index (GEL)

1 582,68

Ͳ

Ͳ

TRY / USD

5,7593

+5,7%

+8,3%

GT Index (USD)

1 208,13

Ͳ

Ͳ

AZN / USD

1,6994

+0,2%

Ͳ0,1%

MSCI EM


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