March 23 (SeeNews) - Romania's M3, the broadest gauge of the country's money supply, grew by a nominal 13.4% year-on-year to 353.45 billion lei ($93 billion/76 billion euro) in February, compared to a 12.9% increase in January, the central bank, BNR, said on Friday.
On a monthly comparison basis, Romania's M3 money supply rose by 1% in February, BNR said in a statement.
In real terms, February M3 was 8.3% higher on the year and up by 0.7% on the month.
Romania's M1 rose 17.8% on the year to 211.1 billion lei last month, at the same annual pace as in January.
Net foreign assets increased by an annual 13.1% in February, reaching 161.7 billion lei, while net domestic assets increased 13.6% to 191.7 billion lei.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
|
Feb, bln lei |
Feb y/y |
Jan y/y |
M3 |
353,453.1 |
13.4 |
12.9 |
M2 |
353,332.1 |
13.4 |
12.9 |
M1 |
211,142.3 |
17.8 |
17.8 |
Net foreign assets |
161,718.1 |
13.1 |
7.5 |
Net domestic assets |
191,735.0 |
13.6 |
17.6 |
source: BNR
(1 euro=4.6651 lei)