The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, grew by 8.2% year-on-year last month, reaching 125.2 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At some 87.37 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at the end of January was 2.2% higher on the year and 3.4 percentage points lower than the annual growth posted in December.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
End-Jan | End-Jan (y/y pct change) | End-Dec (y/y pct change) | |
M3 | 154,766 | 8.8 | 8.7 |
M1 | 125,154 | 8.2 | 8.0 |
M2-M1 | 29,612 | 11.3 | 11.7 |
Net foreign assets | 87,373 | 2.2 | 5.6 |
Net domestic assets | 98,204 | 19.7 | 15.9 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)