The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, climbed by 8.3% year-on-year last month, reaching 127.6 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At some 85.36 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at the end of April was 1.8% higher in annual terms and 0.1 percentage points more than the growth booked 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 | 157,078 | 8.3 | 8.0 |
M1 | 127,590 | 8.3 | 8.0 |
M2-M1 | 29,487 | 7.9 | 8.2 |
Net foreign assets | 85,361 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
Net domestic assets | 103,447 | 19.0 | 19.6 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)