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THURSDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2022 • ISSUE 140
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PAUL COCKS
AROUND 650 businesses - large
and small - have benefited from
over €500 million in bank loans
guranteed under the Malta De-
velopment Bank's COVID-19
Guarantee Scheme (CGS), Busi-
nessToday has leant.
MDB chairman Prof Josef Bon-
nici told this newspaper that the
scheme was making available vi-
tal capital to businesses crippled
by the pandemic.
650 businesses benefit
from €500 million under
Covid Guarantee Scheme
Industrial PPI
rose by 7.15%
in December
GDP up by
0.4% in the EU
STAR PERFORMER MSE FTSE 100
EUR EXCHANGE RATES
Trading Date: 2 Feb 2022
Number of Trades: 85
Turnover: €593,191.68
MSE TRX Index: 7,847.959
(Change: -0.204%)
Name 4% STV SEC BDS
MT0001601203 - Currency €
Last Traded 2 Feb, 2022
Price 103.500
Change 2.810
US Dollar 1.1292
British Pound: 0.83513
Japanese Yen: 129.07
Australian Dollar: 1.5755
Swiss Franc: 1.0395
7,592.16
56.38
7,605.64 / 7,535.78
Value
Net variation
High / Low
+0.75
Scheme extended by
a further six months
until 30 June 2022
to ensure businesses
still affected by the
crisis will not be cut
off from necessary
support
Malta Development Bank chairman Josef Bonnici
