--- INTEREST RATES ---

Latest Date Pvs Rate 4 weeks ago

91-day T-bill yield 9.715 6/10/09 9.611 9.592

182-day T-bill yield 9.952 3/11/09 9.949 9.773

273-day T-bill yield 10.211 3/11/09 10.247 9.781

350-day T-bill yield 9.806 1/9/09 9.794 10.273

357-day T-bill yield 10.239 3/11/09 10.237 9.813

364-day T-bill yield 10.242 27/10/09 9.913 9.722

Central bank discount rate 8.5 2/8/09 9.0 9.0

Central bank o/n deposit 8.25 17/9/09 8.5 8.5

Central bank o/n lending 9.75 17/8/09 10.0 10.0

Overnight interbank 8.270 4/11/09 8.266 8.280

--- MONTHLY DATA ---

Month Pvs Yr ago

Countrywide CPI change Sept 10.2 8.4 22.2

(year-on-year, percent)

Countrywide CPI index Sept 142.8 140.0 129.5

Urban consumer prices Sept 10.8 9.0 21.5

(year/year, pct change)

Urban consumer price Sept 141.3 138.7 127.6

index

Core inflation Sept 6.3 5.8 23.0

(year-on-year, percent)

Producer price index Sept 152.4 152.8 163.3

Foreign reserves ($bln) Oct 34.03 33.51 35.03

Oil output (mln tonnes) Aug 2,974 2,984 3,006

Suez Canal ($mln) Sept 382.5 371.8 469.6

Money supply M2 Sept 8.99 7.1 14.07

(pct change yr/yr)

--- QUARTERLY DATA ---

Q4 2008/09* Q3 2008/09 Q4 2007/2008

(*provisional figures)

(all in millions of dollars)

Trade balance -5,680 -4,866 -6,626

Exports 5,915 5,658 8,518

Oil 2,416 2,607 4,552

Non-oil 3,498 3,051 3,966

Imports -11,595 -10,524 -15,144

Net services 2,878 2,158 4,170

Goods and services balance -2,802 -2,708 -2,456

Transfers 1,807 1,790 2,945

Current account balance -994 -918 489

Capital account 702 -1347 3,933

Net errors/omissions -743 469 -3,916

OVERALL BALANCE -1,035 -1,796 506

Q4 2008/09 Q3 2008/09 Q4 2007/08

Tourism receipts ($mln) 1,832 2,188 2,393

Q1 2009/10 Q4 2008/09 Q1 2008/09

GDP growth (percent) 4.9 4.7 5.8

--- ANNUAL DATA ---

2008/2009* 2007/2008 2006/2007

(*preliminary figures)

Real GDP growth (% change) 4.7 7.2 7.1

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS ($mln) -3,378 5,420 5,282

Trade balance -25,173 -23,415 -16,291

Exports 25,169 29,356 22,018

Oil 11,005 14,473 10,108

Non-oil 14,164 14,883 11,910

Imports -50,342 -52,771 -38,308

Net services 12,502 14,966 11,771

Goods and services -12,671 -8,449 -4,792

Transfers 8,247 9,338 7,061

Current account -4,424 888 2,269

Capital account 1,381 7,558 853

Net errors/omissions -335 -3,025 -2,160

--- LONG-TERM CREDIT RATINGS ---

Standard & Poors BB plus (non-investment grade)

Moody's Ba1 (non-investment grade)

Fitch BB plus (non-investment grade)

* The base for the index has been changed to January 2007

Other notes:

1. Fiscal year is July-June.

2. Data from Central Bank except for the following:

Interbank rate - Private banks

CPI & Tourism - Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and

Statistics

Suez Canal & Oil production - Cabinet Information and

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