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Reduced growth in household money supply
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2010-01-08T10:00:00.000Z
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The money supply M2, November 2009

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Reduced growth in household money supply

The twelve-month growth in total money supply (M2) was 2.4 per cent to end-November, up from 2.3 per cent to end-October. The total money supply amounted to NOK 1 501 by end-November.

Money supply (M2) - growth

Household money supply amounted to NOK 807 billion by end-November, and this constituted more than half of the total money supply. The twelve-month growth in household money supply was 4.9 per cent to end-November, down from 5.7 to the previous month. The growth in household money supply was lower than the growth in household gross domestic debt, which was 7.0 per cent to end-November, as shown by the credit indicator C2 . For more information on the financial position of households, see the financial accounts in the national accounts .

Reduction in non-financial enterprise money supply growth

Non-financial enterprise money supply amounted to NOK 502 billion at end-November. The twelve-month growth was 1.5 per cent to end-November, down from 2.5 per cent to the previous month. Non-financial enterprise money supply constituted 42.8 per cent of their gross domestic debt measured by the credit indicator C2 at end-November. As recently as in December 2007 this ratio was higher than 50 per cent.

Increased growth in the money supply from other financial enterprises

Other financial enterprise money supply (other than state lending institutions, banks and money market funds) amounted to NOK 138 billion at end-November. The twelve-month growth was -9.2 per cent to end-November, up from -16.9 per cent to end-October.

Monetary aggregates, growth (per cent)
  June 2009 July 2009 Aug 2009 Sep. 2009 Oct. 2009 Nov. 2009
M0 - 12 mth. 59.1  116.1 18.7 22.7 -21.2 -43.6
M1 - 12 mth. -1.8 -0.5 -2.0 1.6 5.2 4.1
M2 - 12 mth. 3.6 3.4 2.2 3.1 2.3 2.4
M2 - 3 mth. moving average 7.4 4.7 2.5 0.9 1.3  
M2 households - 12 mth. 5.9 5.9 5.7 5.7 5.7 4.9
M2 non-financial enterprises - 12 mth. 1.6 2.5 -0.7 -0.2 2.5 1.5

Composition of money supply

The broad monetary aggregate M2 amounted to NOK 1 501 billion at end-November, of which the major part (90.8 per cent) consisted of bank deposits. In comparison, notes and coins only accounted for 3.0 per cent of the broad money. The rest of the broad money mainly consisted of shares in money market funds (5.8 per cent), while certificates of deposits accounted for 0.3 per cent.

The money supply (broad monetary aggregate) M2 consists of notes and coins, unrestricted bank deposits, certificates of deposit and units in money market funds owned by the money-holding sector i.e. households, non-financial enterprises, municipalities and financial enterprises other than state lending institutions, banks and money market funds.