The Lithuanian central bank (Lietuvos bankas) forecasts that the country's economy will recover by 1.9% this year from a projected contraction of 2% this year.

The EIF has signed a guarantee deal with Faktoro, allowing them to start a programme of micro-loans to small companies in Lithuania, as part of the EIB Group's Covid-19 support measures.

Latvijas Tilti construction company, a member of LNK holding, will have to pay a EUR 77,400 fine for its former board chairman bribing a Klaipeda port official, according to the agreement reached by the company with the prosecution, De Facto analytical news program of the Latvian public television reported.

Coherent Solutions, a US-registered software development company with Belarussian roots, has announced plans to set up a full-scale software development center in Vilnius and to hire at least 100 specialists over the next three years, Invest Lithuania said on December 10th.

Lithuania's exports shrank by 5.4% in January-October 2020 from a year earlier to 23.367 billion euros, and its imports slumped down by 11.4% to 23.681 billion euros, the country's statistics office said on December 10th.

Banks and foreign bank branches in Lithuania saw their combined net profits drop by 21.6% in January-September 2020 to 213.1 million euros, from 271.9 million euros a year ago.

Wittix, an electronic money institution, and Hanan Assis, its CEO, have been fined for improper safeguarding of client money.

Europe's largest secondhand clothing and accessory marketplace Vinted has launched in Italy. The company says the country's residents can use its app as of last week.

Lithuania's consumer prices edged down by 0.1 percent in November from October, resuming their downward trend after two months of positive inflation, the country's statistics office said.

Lithuania's oil terminal, operated by state-owned company Klaipedos Nafta (Klaipeda Oil, KN), is starting preparing its storage facilities for bitumen handling.