July 23 (SeeNews) - Romania's M3, the broadest gauge of the country's money supply, grew by a nominal 7.7% year-on-year to 390.5 billion lei ($92.4 billion/82.7 billion euro) in June, compared to a 9.1% increase in May, the central bank, BNR, said on Tuesday.
On a monthly comparison basis, Romania's M3 money supply edged up by 0.3% in June, BNR said in a statement.
In real terms, June M3 was 3.7% higher on the year and was 0.5% higher on the month.
Romania's M1 rose 12.7% on the year to 145 billion lei last month, compared to 13.3% in May.
Net foreign assets rose by 8.9% in June, reaching 171.8 billion lei, while net domestic assets jumped by 6.8% to 218 billion lei.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
|
June, bln lei |
June y/y |
May y/y |
M3 |
390.477,8 |
7.7 |
9.1 |
M2 |
390.476,1 |
7.8 |
9.2 |
M1 |
145.057,4 |
12.7 |
13.3 |
Net foreign assets |
171.846,0 |
8.9 |
6.8 |
Net domestic assets |
218.631,7 |
6.8 |
11.1 |
source: BNR
(1 euro=4.7204 lei)