March 24 (SeeNews) - Romania's M3, the broadest gauge of the country's money supply, grew by a nominal 10% year-on-year to 423.5 billion lei ($95 billion/87 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 1% in February, BNR said in a statement.
In real terms, February M3 was 6.8% higher on the year and rose by 0.7% on the month.
Romania's M1 rose 16.9% on the year to 273.8 billion lei last month, compared to 16.7% in January.
Net foreign assets jumped 14.9% in February, reaching 203.7 billion lei, while net domestic assets rose by 5.9% to 219.8 billion lei.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
|
Feb, bln lei |
Feb y/y |
Jan y/y |
M3 |
423.524,2 |
10.0 |
9.7 |
M2 |
423.524,2 |
10.0 |
9.7 |
M1 |
273.791,9 |
16.9 |
16.7 |
Net foreign assets |
203.695,8 |
14.9 |
13.5 |
Net domestic assets |
219.828,4 |
5.9 |
6.4 |
source: BNR
(1 euro=4.8445 lei)