The M1 monetary aggregate, the narrowest measure of money supply and the M3's most liquid component, added 8% year-on-year last month, reaching nearly 127 billion levs, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said in a monthly monetary statistics report.
At roughly 87.2 billion levs, the volume of net foreign assets at the end of March was 1.7% higher in annual terms and 0.9 percentage points higher than the growth recorded in February.
Details follow (in millions of levs unless stated otherwise):
End-March | End-March (y/y pct change) | End-Feb (y/y pct change) | |
M3 | 156,423 | 8.0 | 8.0 |
M1 | 126,981 | 8.0 | 7.6 |
M2-M1 | 29,443 | 8.2 | 10.1 |
Net foreign assets | 87,249 | 1.7 | 0.8 |
Net domestic assets | 101,269 | 19.6 | 20.1 |
Source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)