March 23 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, increased by 13.1% year-on-year in February, to 143.7 billion levs ($79.24 billion/73.47 billion euro), after adding 13.1% in January, the central bank said on Thursday.
The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, went up an annual 16.8% in February, reaching 116.7 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At some 86.4 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at the end of February was 20.3% higher on the year.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
|
End-Feb |
End-Feb (y/y pct change) |
End-Jan (y/y pct change) |
M3 |
143,690 |
13.1 |
13.1 |
M1 |
116,734 |
16.8 |
17.8 |
M2-M1 |
26,956 |
-0,3 |
-3.4 |
Net foreign assets |
86,444 |
20.3 |
19.6 |
Net domestic assets |
82,829 |
4.4 |
4.7 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)