On a monthly comparison basis, M3 money supply rose 0.2% in January, the central bank, BNR, said in a monthly monetary statistics report on Friday.
In real terms, M3 grew by 3.2% on the year and dropped by 0.9% on the month in January.
Romania’s M1 monetary aggregate increased by 3.5% on the year in January, to 403.5 billion lei, after a 2.8% increase in December.
Net foreign assets rose by an annual 20.8% in January, reaching 341.5 billion lei, while net domestic assets climbed by 2% year-on-year to 327.4 billion lei.
Details follow (amounts in millions of lei, nominal change in percent):
Jan, mln lei | Jan y/y | Dec y/y | |
M3 | 668,960.7 | +10.8 | +10.7 |
M2 | 668,960.7 | +10.8 | +10.7 |
M1 | 403,510.9 | +3.5 | +2.8 |
Net foreign assets | 341,538.6 | +20.8 | +30.6 |
Net domestic assets | 327,422.1 | +2.0 | -3.4 |
Source: BNR
(1 euro=4.96793 lei)