January 25 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, increased by 13.2% year-on-year in December, to 142.4 billion levs ($79.05 billion/72.81 billion euro), after adding 13.6% in November, the central bank said on Wednesday.
The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, grew by 18.5% on the year in December, reaching 115.97 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At some 82.7 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at end-December was 16.1% higher in annual terms, almost double that of the 8.7% increase in November.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
|
End-Dec |
End-Dec (y/y pct change) |
End-Nov (y/y pct change) |
M3 |
142,371 |
13.2 |
13.6 |
M1 |
115,972 |
18.5 |
18.7 |
M2-M1 |
26,399 |
-5.5 |
-4.2 |
Net foreign assets |
82,721 |
16.1 |
8.7 |
Net domestic assets |
84,396 |
7.6 |
14.5 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)