CANADIAN MONEY SUPPLY FALLS IN WEEK
Canadian narrowly-defined money supply
M-1 fell 291 mln dlrs to 32.44 billion dlrs in the week ended
March 25, Bank of Canada said.
    M-1-A, which is M-1 plus daily interest chequable and
non-personal deposits, fell 7 mln dlrs to 75.14 billion dlrs
and M-2, which is M-1-A plus other notice and personal
fixed-term deposits, fell 56 mln dlrs to 177.54 billion dlrs.
    M-3, which is non-personal fixed term deposits and foreign
currency deposits of residents booked at chartered banks in
Canada, rose 321 mln dlrs to 216.67 billion dlrs.
    Chartered bank general loans outstanding fell 169 mln dlrs
to 126.03 billion dlrs.
    Canadian liquid plus short term assets rose 72 mln dlrs to
36.47 billion dlrs and total Canadian dollar major assets of
the chartered banks rose 507 mln dlrs to 224.22 billion dlrs.
    Chartered bank net foreign currency assets fell 231 mln
dlrs to minus 2.00 billion dlrs.             
    Notes in circulation totalled 16.16 billion dlrs, up 50 mln
dlrs from the week before.
    Government cash balances fell 1.17 billion dlrs to 4.63
billion dlrs in week ended April 1.
    Government securities outstanding rose 1.09 billion dlrs to
226.42 billion dlrs in week ended April 1, treasury bills rose
1.35 billion dlrs to 76.95 billion dlrs and Canada Savings
Bonds fell 47 mln dlrs to 43.87 billion dlrs.         
 Reuter
