May 25 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, went up by an annual 11.8% in April, to 145.1 billion levs ($79.97 billion/74.19 billion euro), following a 12.1% yearly rise in March, the central bank said on Thursday.
The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, grew by 13.9% on the year last month, reaching 117.8 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At some 83.88 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at the end of April was 15.4% higher in annual terms and 4.4 percentage points lower than the rise recorded in March.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
|
End-April |
End-April (y/y pct change) |
End-March (y/y pct change) |
M3 |
145,106 |
11.8 |
12.1 |
M1 |
117,784 |
13.9 |
14.6 |
M2-M1 |
27,322 |
3.5 |
2.6 |
Net foreign assets |
83,883 |
15.4 |
19.8 |
Net domestic assets |
86,950 |
7.1 |
3.4 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)