The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, increased by 7.5% on the year last month, reaching 120.8 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At some 83.5 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at the end of October was 6.1% higher in annual terms and 0.6 percentage points lower than the growth booked in September.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
End-Oct | End-Oct (y/y pct change) | End-Sept (y/y pct change) | |
M3 | 149,823 | 8.4 | 8.7 |
M1 | 120,809 | 7.5 | 8.0 |
M2-M1 | 29,014 | 12.3 | 11.9 |
Net foreign assets | 83,518 | 6.1 | 6.7 |
Net domestic assets | 95,537 | 14.4 | 13.5 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)