On a monthly basis, Romania's M3 declined 1.3% in March, BNR said in a statement.
In real terms, the M3 money supply was down 1.3% month-on-month and 5.3% higher on the year at the end of last month.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
March | M/M | Y/Y | |
M3 money supply | 239.75 | -1.3 | +6.4 |
M2 money supply | 239.32 | -1.4 | +6.3 |
- Cash in circulation | 35.46 | -1.5 | +11.9 |
- Overnight deposits | 65.22 | -1.7 | +14.2 |
- Deposits up to 2 years (M2-M1) | 138.64 | -1.2 | +1.7 |
Net external assets | 75.39 | -0.99 | +55.9 |
Net internal assets | 164.35 | -1.5 | -7.1 |
Leu deposits | 138.96 | -1.4 | +9.0 |
- individuals | 81.12 | -1.0 | +5.4 |
- companies | 57.84 | -1.9 | +14.5 |
Foreign currency deposits | 75.09 | -0.7 | +2.4 |
- individuals | 49.27 | -1.0 | +0.7 |
- companies | 25.82 | -0.1 | +5.7 |
Private lending in lei | 88.13 | +2.3 | +4.7 |
- individuals | 35.38 | +1.8 | +4.1 |
- companies | 52.74 | +2.6 | +5.2 |
Private lending in foreign currency | 129.73 | -1.9 | -7.2 |
- individuals | 67.05 | -1.6 | -3.7 |
- companies | 62.67 | -2.1 | -10.7 |
(1 euro = 4.4518 Romanian lei)