15.12.2008
 
Costs and Net Interest Margins in the Unindexed Local-Currency Segment, (10/08),
and the Average Interest Rate, (09/08), that Serves as a Basis for Interest on the "Gray Market"
 
1.  Interest Rates and Net Interest Margins (percent)
Average interest on credit to the public July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008
Total 6.57 6.88 7.13 6.83
Term credit 6.08 6.37 6.63 6.31
Current accounts with debit balances and current loan accounts 9.68 10.21 10.39 10.12
Average interest on the public's deposits        
Total 2.95 3.31 3.45 3.07
Time deposits 3.32 3.74 3.88 3.44
Current accounts with credit balances 0.89 0.94 1.02 0.97
Interest-rate spread between interest on credit and interest on deposits 3.62 3.57 3.68 3.77
Net interest margin between return on assets and cost of liabilities 3.28 3.18 3.21 3.41
Cost of unindexed credit for purposes of the Nonbank Loans Arrangement Law1 6.57 6.88 7.13  
 
2. Balances in the Unindexed Segment (NIS billion)
  July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008
Balance of credit to the public 279.2 279.4 287.3 293.6
Of which to business customers 202.4 201.3 207.2 211.8
Balance of deposits of the public 349.1 348.5 354.7 365.4
 
1 According to the Nonbank Loans Arrangement Law (the "Gray Market" Law), the maximum cost of such a loan shall be two-and-a-quarter times the average cost of unindexed credit. These data are preliminary until their publication in the Official Gazette.