October 24 (SeeNews) - Romania's M3, the broadest gauge of the country's money supply, rose in September by a nominal 1.8% month-on-month to 126.68 billion lei ($53.4 billion/37.5 billion euro), the country's central bank, BNR, said on Wednesday.
The September M3 was a nominal 28.2% higher than a year earlier.
In real terms, the September M3 money supply went up 0.7% month-on-month and was 20.9% higher on the year, BNR said in a statement.
The BNR began issuing M3 data in January, expanding on the previous M2 figures.
Details follow (in billions of lei, nominal change in percent):
|
|
September '07 |
M/M |
Y/Y |
| M3 money supply |
126.68 |
+1.8 |
+28.2 |
| M2 money supply |
126.51 |
+1.8 |
+28.4 |
| - Cash in circulation |
18.91 |
+3.0 |
+31.1 |
| - Demand deposits |
47.76 |
+2.1 |
+72.3 |
| - Deposits up to 2 years (M2-M1) |
59.84 |
+1.1 |
+6.2 |
| Net external assets |
30.88 |
-5.2 |
-14.9 |
| Net internal assets |
95.79 |
+4.3 |
+53.2 |
| Leu deposits |
75.20 |
+0.2 |
+34.2 |
| - individuals |
37.72 |
+0.7 |
+52.0 |
| - companies |
37.48 |
+0.3 |
+20.0 |
| Hard currency deposits |
34.45 |
+4.5 |
+20.2 |
| - individuals |
20.82 |
+7.2 |
+44.2 |
| - companies |
13.63 |
+0.6 |
-4.5 |
| Private lending in lei |
62.65 |
+4.0 |
+40.9 |
| - to individuals |
31.01 |
+3.3 |
+44.6 |
| - to companies |
31.64 |
+4.7 |
+37.5 |
| Private lending in hard currency |
66.41 |
+7.4 |
+66.2 |
| - to individuals |
29.47 |
+9.2 |
+105.3 |
| - to companies |
36.94 |
+6.0 |
+44.3 |
(1 euro = 3.3739 Romanian lei)