Macedonia's Stopanska Banka Bitola 9-mo net loss halves

Net interest income fell 28% to 114 million denars in the first nine months, while net fee and commission income decreased to some 26 million denars from 32.6 million denars, Stopanska Banka Bitola said in a filing with the Macedonian Stock Exchange.

Stopanska Banka Bitola is a component of the bourse's blue-chip MBI index.

Sixteen banks operate in the country of some 2.0 million people.

(1 euro=61.5013 Macedonian denars)