OREANDA-NEWS.  Bank of Lithuania: Over December 2014 the M3 broad monetary aggregate increased by EUR 288.0 million (LTL 994.4 million), while its annual growth rate was 1.0 per cent at the end of the month. A major impact on the increase in M3 came from overnight deposits, deposits with agreed maturity of up to 2 years and deposits redeemable at notice of up to 3 months — over the month they increased respectively by EUR 937.3 million, EUR 58.0 million and EUR 8.4 million (LTL 3.2 billion, LTL 200.1 million and LTL 29.1 million), respectively. However, M3 was reduced by currency in circulation and debt securities up to 2 years, which over the month decreased by EUR 695.1 million and EUR 20.6 million (LTL 2.4 billion and LTL 71.0 million), respectively. Net external assets of monetary financial institutions (MFI) increased by EUR 108.0 million (LTL 372.8 million) in December and amounted to EUR 4.5 billion (LTL 15.6 billion). Domestic credit over the month decreased by EUR 91.4 million (LTL 315.5 million): credit to other residents decreased by EUR 106.8 million (LTL 368.6 million), while credit to general government increased by EUR 15.4 million (LTL 53.1 million).

The above data was released by the Statistics Department of the Bank of Lithuania.