BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 20
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
The value of Kazakhstan’s monetary base amounted to 10.2 trillion tenge ($24.2 billion) in August 2021, which corresponds to the volume of last month and 5.3 percent more than as of the end of Dec. 2020, Trend reports with reference to the data of Kazakhstan’s National Bank.
"The narrow reserve money equaled 6.3 trillion tenge ($14.8 billion), which is 3 percent more than last month and 23.8 percent more than at beginning of the year," the report said.
"In turn, the value of the currency in circulation stood at 3.01 trillion tenge ($7.09 billion), which is 0.7 percent less than in July 2021 and 6.6 percent more compared to the value as of the beginning of the year," the statement said.
M1 money aggregate increased by 10.8 percent since the beginning of the year and amounted to 7.9 trillion tenge ($18.7 billion), whereas M2 money aggregate increased by 14.4 percent and equaled 21.8 trillion tenge ($51.5 billion).
"The broad money value amounted to 28.05 trillion tenge ($66.01 billion), which is down by 0.6 percent compared to July 2021 and 12.6 percent more than at the beginning of the year," the report said.
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