CANADIAN MONEY SUPPLY RISES IN WEEK

  Canadian narrowly-defined money supply
  M-1 rose 217 mln dlrs to 32.80 billion dlrs in week ended
  February 25, Bank of Canada said.
      M-1-A, which is M-1 plus daily interest chequable and
  non-personal deposits, rose 556 mln dlrs to 75.19 billion dlrs
  and M-2, which is M-1-A plus other notice and personal
  fixed-term deposit rose 651 mln dlrs to 176.87 billion dlrs.s
      M-3, which is non-personal fixed term deposits and foreign
  currency deposits of residents booked at chartered banks in
  Canada, rose 992 mln dlrs to 216.03 billion dlrs.
      Chartered bank general loans outstanding rose 481 mln dlrs
  to 124.99 billion dlrs.
      Canadian liquid plus short term assets fell 854 mln dlrs to
  35.40 billion dlrs and total Canadian dollar major assets of
  the chartered banks fell 118 mln dlrs to 221.20 billion dlrs.
      Chartered bank net foreign currency assets fell 23 mln dlrs
  to minus 1.92 billion dlrs.
      Notes in circulation totalled 16.24 billion dlrs, up 76 mln
  dlrs from the week before.
      Government cash balances fell 565 mln dlrs to 4.31 billion
  dlrs in week ended March 4.
      Government securities outstanding rose 1.25 billion dlrs to
  224.09 billion dlrs in week ended March 4, treasury bills rose
  950 mln dlrs to 74.55 billion dlrs and Canada Savings Bonds
  fell 57 mln dlrs to 44.34 billion dlrs.
  

