March 26 (SeeNews) - Romania's M3, the broadest gauge of the country's money supply, grew by a nominal 9.2% year-on-year to 384.9 billion lei ($92 billion/81 billion euro) in February, compared to a 9.7% increase in January, the central bank, BNR, said on Tuesday.
On a monthly comparison basis, Romania's M3 money supply rose by 0.6% in February, BNR said in a statement.
In real terms, February M3 was 5.2% higher on the year and was 0.2% lower on the month.
Romania's M1 rose 11.2% on the year to 233.2 billion lei last month, compared to 11.9% in January.
Net foreign assets rose by 7% in February, reaching 177 billion lei, while net domestic assets jumped by 11.2% to 207 billion lei.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
|
January, bln lei |
Feb y/y |
Jan y/y |
M3 |
384.993,5 |
9.2 |
9.7 |
M2 |
384.993,5 |
9.2 |
9.7 |
M1 |
233.203,0 |
11.2 |
11.9 |
Net foreign assets |
177.327,1 |
7.0 |
9.7 |
Net domestic assets |
207.666,3 |
11.2 |
9.6 |
source: BNR
(1 euro=4.7594 lei)