May 25 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, increased to 79.66 billion levs ($45.76 billion/40.74 billion euro) as at end-April, up 7.6% year-on-year, after growing by an annual 8.5% in the previous month, the central bank, BNB, said on Thursday.
The narrowest measure of money supply, M1, rose 16.0% on the year to 41.1 billion levs as of end-April, following a 17.7% annual increase in March, the BNB said in a statement.
Net foreign assets increased by 8.2% year-on-year in April, reaching 50.16 billion levs, while net domestic assets increased by 5.1% to 49 billion levs.
Details follow (in billions of levs, nominal change in percent):
|
April, bln levs |
April y/y |
March m/m |
M3 |
79.66 |
7.6 |
8.5 |
M1 |
41.1 |
16.0 |
17.7 |
Quasi money (M2-M1) |
38.47 |
-0.1 |
0 |
Net foreign assets |
50.16 |
8.2 |
10 |
Net domestic assets |
49 |
5.1 |
5.5 |
- domestic credit |
50.77 |
3.7 |
4.0 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)