January 27 (SeeNews) - Romania's M3, the broadest gauge of the country's money supply, grew by a nominal 10.9% year-on-year to 422.6 billion lei ($93 billion/85 billion euro) in December, compared to a 9.5% increase in November, the central bank, BNR, said on Monday.
On a monthly comparison basis, Romania's M3 money supply rose 2.6% in December, BNR said in a statement.
In real terms, December M3 was 6.6% higher on the year and was 2.2% higher on the month.
Romania's M1 rose 17.8% on the year to 276.9 billion lei last month, compared to 15.6% in November.
Net foreign assets jumped 9.2% in December, reaching 181.8 billion lei, while net domestic assets rose by 12.3% to 241 billion lei.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
|
December, bln lei |
December y/y |
November y/y |
M3 |
422.628,6 |
10.9 |
9.5 |
M2 |
422.628,6 |
10.9 |
9.5 |
M1 |
276.935,5 |
17.8 |
15.6 |
Net foreign assets |
181.847,4 |
9.2 |
11.0 |
Net domestic assets |
240.781,2 |
12.3 |
8.3 |
source: BNR
(1 euro=4.7798 lei)