December 29 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Bosnian media on Tuesday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy:
NEZAVISNE NOVINE
- Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat Federation Finance Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda said 2010 will be a hard year and Bosnia will suffer the full impact of the economic crisis. He added the biggest concern are the exports which suffer from the contraction of demand from abroad.
CAPITAL.BA
- Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat Federation Finance Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda said a deficit of 335 million marka in the Federation’s 2010 budget of 1.7 billion marka will be fully covered by 248 million marka from an International Monetary Fund stand-by loan and 87 million marka in financing from the World Bank. The Federation's balanced budget for next year is 375 million marka lower than the budget for the current year.
- A third of Bosnian commercial banks will end the year with a combined loss of over 25 million marka due to the economic downturn, data from Bosnian banking agencies indicated. Ten out of Bosnia's 30 banks reported losses for the January-September period.
(1 euro=1.95583 marka)