March 26 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, increased 10.4% year-on-year to 94.6 billion levs ($54.8 billion/48.4 billion euro) at the end of February, compared to an annual growth of 10.0% at the end of January, the central bank, BNB, said on Tuesday.
The narrowest measure of money supply, M1, rose 14.1% on the year to 54.3 billion levs at the end of February, compared to a 13.5% annual rise at the end of January, BNB said in a statement.
Net foreign assets increased 9.9% year-on-year at the end of January, reaching 57.3 billion levs. Net domestic assets added 10.3% on the year to 58.3 billion levs.
Details follow (y/y pct change unless otherwise stated):
|
end-Feb (mln levs) |
end-Feb |
end-Jan |
M3 |
94,614 |
10.4 |
10.0 |
M1 |
54,342 |
14.1 |
13.5 |
Quasi money (M2-M1) |
40,271 |
6.1 |
5.8 |
Net foreign assets |
57,325 |
9.9 |
7.9 |
Net domestic assets |
58,263 |
10.3 |
11.0 |
source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)