Romania's M3 money supply growth speeds up in April

On a monthly comparison basis, M3 money supply edged up 0.8% in April, the central bank, BNR, said in a monthly monetary statistics report.

In real terms, M3 was 2.4% lower on the year in April and inched up by 0.02% on the month.

Romania’s M1 monetary aggregate decreased by 6.5% on the year in April, to 381.9 billion lei, after a 6% drop in March.

Net foreign assets rose by an annual 16.1% in March, reaching 283.1 billion lei, while net domestic assets added 3% to 335.5 billion lei.

Details follow (billions of lei, nominal change in percent):

Source: BNR

(1 euro=4.95845 lei)