YEREVAN, June 14./ARKA/. Purchase/sale transactions with the securities conducted by the investment companies at Armenian securities market slashed by 3.7% in April 2013 from March to 27.7 billion drams, the Central Bank said in its monthly newsletter.

Transactions with corporate bonds rose in April by 5.7 times to 132.9 million drams, purchase/sale transactions with shares valued at 863.2 million drams in April against 200,000 drams in March.
Transactions with government bonds climbed in April by 31.2% to 966.4 million drams. Repo transactions hit 25.7 billion drams in April versus 27.3 billion drams in March (5.8-percent downturn).

Repo transactions accounted for 92.9% of all transactions at the securities market in April, government bonds-3.5%, securities-3.1%, corporate bonds- 0.5%.
As of 30 April, there are nine investment companies in Armenia. ($1 – 411.64 drams). —0-