January 25 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, increased 8.8% year-on-year to 93.3 billion levs ($54.1 billion/47.7 billion euro) at the end of 2018, compared to an annual growth of 9.3% at the end of November, the central bank, BNB, said.
The narrowest measure of money supply, M1, rose 12.2% on the year to 53.6 billion levs at the end of December, compared to a 14.5% annual rise at the end of November, BNB said in a statement on Thursday.
Net foreign assets increased 8.4% year-on-year at end-2018, reaching 56.1 billion levs. Net domestic assets added 7.8%, to 57.9 billion levs.
Details follow (y/y pct change unless otherwise stated):
|
end-Dec (mln levs) |
end-Dec |
end-Nov |
M3 |
92,256 |
8.8 |
9.3 |
M1 |
53,557 |
12.2 |
14.5 |
Quasi money (M2-M1) |
39,698 |
4.7 |
3.3 |
Net foreign assets |
56,068 |
8.4 |
7.8 |
Net domestic assets |
57,930 |
7.8 |
7.0 |
source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)