M3, bank lending pick up in Dec

THE growth of the country’s money supply continued to accelerate amid the faster rise in bank lending, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed on Wednesday.

In a statement, the central bank said domestic liquidity (M3) expanded by 11.4 percent year-on-year to P13 trillion last December, faster than November’s 9.8 percent. Month-on-month and seasonally adjusted, M3 increased by 1.6 percent.