Bulgaria's M3, the broadest gauge of money supply, increased 10.8% on the year in April, to 129.8 billion levs ($70.7 billion/66.4 billion euro), the central bank said on Wednesday.
The narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, the M1 monetary aggregate, rose 18.9% year-on-year to 103.4 billion levs last month, following 18.6% annual growth in March, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a statement.
Net foreign assets increased by 7.1% in April compared to the same month of 2021, reaching 72.7 billion levs. Net domestic assets went up 12.8% to 81.2 billion levs at the end of last month.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
|
End-Apr |
End-Apr (y/y pct change) |
End-Mar (y/y pct change) |
M3 |
129,829 |
10.8 |
10.7 |
M1 |
103,431 |
18.9 |
18.6 |
M2-M1 |
26,398 |
-12.6 |
-12.0 |
Net foreign assets |
72,718 |
7.1 |
5.5 |
Net domestic assets |
81,161 |
12.8 |
14.7 |
Source: BNB