At end-August 2010, broad money (M3) amounted to RON 195,719.5 million, up 1.0 percent (0.8 percent in real terms) month on month. In year-on-year comparison, broad money rose 6.4 percent (down 1.1 percent in real terms).
Table 1. Monetary aggregates*
| INDICATORS |
31 August 2010
(RON mill.) |
August 2010/
July 2010
(%) |
August 2010/
August 2009
(%) |
| M1 (narrow money)
| 80,476.1 |
0.8 |
-2.8 |
| Currency in circulation
| 26,972.7 |
0.2 |
10.5 |
| Overnight deposits**
| 53,503.4 |
1.1 |
-8.4 |
| M2 (intermediate money)
| 192,677.1 |
1.0 |
5.4 |
| M1
| 80,476.1 |
0.8 |
-2.8 |
| Deposits with an agreed maturity of up to and including two years (includes also deposits redeemable at notice of up to and including three months)
| 112,201.0 |
1.2 |
12.2 |
| M3 (broad money)
| 195,719.5 |
1.0 |
6.4 |
| M2
| 192,677.1 |
1.0 |
5.4 |
| Other marketable instruments (repurchase agreements, money market fund shares and units, marketable securities with a maturity of up to and including two years)
| 3,042.4 |
2.8 |
158.3 |
*provisional data
**current accounts, sight deposits
Table 2. Broad money and its counterpart*
| INDICATORS |
31 August 2010
(RON mill.) |
August 2010/
July 2010
(%) |
August 2010/
August 2009
(%) |
| Broad money (M3) |
195,719.5 |
1.0 |
6.4 |
| Net foreign assets ** |
27,995.0 |
14.7 |
47.8 |
| Net domestic assets *** |
167,724.5 |
-0.9 |
1.6 |
* provisional data
** after deducting foreign liabilities from foreign assets.
Foreign assets include: loans granted to non-residents; deposits with non-residents; marketable securities held (issued by non-residents); shares and other equity with non-residents; monetary gold.
Foreign liabilities include liabilities incurred by non-residents: deposits, marketable securities issued on external markets. The IMF’s SDR allocations are not included in foreign liabilities.
***after deducting domestic liabilities (except M3 components) from domestic assets.
Domestic assets include: loans granted to residents; marketable securities held (issued by residents), shares and other equity with residents.
Domestic liabilities (except M3 components) include liabilities incurred by residents: deposits with an agreed maturity of over two years (including deposits redeemable at a period of notice of over three months); marketable securities with a maturity of over two years issued on domestic market; capital and reserves.
At end-August 2010, non-government loans granted by credit institutions went up 0.5 percent (0.2 percent in real terms) from July 2010 to RON 207,667.7 million. RON-denominated loans decreased 0.6 percent (down 0.8 percent in real terms), whereas foreign currency-denominated loans rose by 1.1 percent when expressed in RON and by 0.8 percent when expressed in EUR. At end-August 2010, non-government loans climbed year on year by 4.5 percent (down 2.8 percent in real terms), on the back of the 8.9 percent increase in foreign currency-denominated loans expressed in RON (when expressed in EUR, forex loans expanded by 8.0 percent) and the 2.0 percent reduction in RON-denominated loans (down 8.9 percent in real terms).
Table 3. Non-government loans*
| INDICATORS |
31 August 2010
(RON mill.) |
August 2010/
July 2010
(%) |
August 2010/
August 2009
(%) |
| Non-government loans (total) |
207,667.7 |
0.5 |
4.5 |
| RON-denominated non-government loans: |
78,156.3 |
-0.6 |
-2.0 |
| - household loans |
37,376.8 |
0.0 |
-5.3 |
| - corporate loans (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) |
40,779.5 |
-1.1 |
1.2 |
| Forex-denominated non-government loans: |
129,511.4 |
1.1 |
8.9 |
| - household loans |
65,665.3 |
1.5 |
9.2 |
| - corporate loans (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) |
63,846.1 |
0.7 |
8.6 |
*provisional data
Government credit1 was down 0.9 percent in August to RON 54,506.3 million. At end-August 2010, government credit increased 21.9 percent (13.4 percent in real terms) from the same year-ago period.
Deposits of non-government resident customers picked up month on month by 0.9 percent, reaching RON 169,418.8 million.
Table 4. Deposits of non-government resident customers*
| INDICATORS |
31 August 2010
(RON mill.) |
August 2010/
July 2010
(%) |
August 2010/
August 2009
(%) |
| Deposits of non-government resident customers (total) ** |
169,418.8 |
0.9 |
5.0 |
| RON-denominated deposits of residents: |
105,949.2 |
1.1 |
3.0 |
| - household deposits |
61,798.1 |
-0.2 |
3.4 |
| - corporate deposits (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) |
44,151.1 |
3.1 |
2.5 |
| Forex-denominated deposits of residents: |
63,469.6 |
0.6 |
8.4 |
| - household deposits |
39,511.7 |
0.3 |
14.2 |
| - corporate deposits (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) |
23,957.9 |
1.0 |
0.1 |
*provisional data
**includes current accounts, sight deposits and all term deposits, irrespective of maturity
RON-denominated household deposits declined by 0.2 percent to RON 61,798.1 million. At end-August 2010, household deposits in domestic currency jumped 3.4 percent (down 3.9 percent in real terms) against the same year-ago period.
RON-denominated corporate deposits (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) increased by 3.1 percent to RON 44,151.1 million. At end-August 2010, RON-denominated corporate deposits rose year on year by 2.5 percent (down 4.8 percent in real terms).
Forex-denominated deposits of resident households and corporates (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) advanced 0.6 percent to RON 63,469.6 million when expressed in domestic currency (when expressed in EUR, forex deposits added 0.3 percent to EUR 14,900.0 million). In year-on-year comparison, residents’ forex deposits expressed in RON moved up 8.4 percent (when expressed in EUR, residents’ forex deposits rose by 7.5 percent); household deposits in foreign currency grew 14.2 percent when expressed in domestic currency (when expressed in EUR, household forex deposits stood 13.2 percent higher) and corporate deposits in foreign currency (non-financial corporations and non-monetary financial institutions) inched up 0.1 percent when expressed in RON (when expressed in EUR, forex deposits of corporate residents decreased by 0.8 percent).
1 includes credit to general government (central government, local government and social security funds) in amount of RON 11,117.1 million (outstanding as at end-August 2010) and marketable securities issued by these institutional sectors, standing at RON 43,389.2 million (outstanding as at end-August 2010).