Madrid (EFE).- The financial wealth of Spanish families, which is measured by the difference between their savings and debts, increased by more than 2% only in the first three months of the year, despite the rise in the inflation, with which it exceeded 2 trillion euros for the first time at the end of March.
In the interannual rate it grows almost 3%.
According to the Financial Accounts of the Spanish economy published this Tuesday by the Bank of Spain, household financial assets -cash, shares, deposits and rental securities- grew by 1% in the quarter, to 2.75 trillion euros at the end of March. In the interannual rate they rose by 1.75%.
In relation to GDP, net financial assets represented 147%, a ratio that is 9.9 percentage points lower than that of a year earlier, mainly due to the growth of the economy.