CAIRO- Egypt's M2 money supply grew by 21.36 percent year-on-year in April, central bank data showed on Thursday.

M2 had grown by 21.85 percent the previous month.

The money supply at the end of April stood at 3.38 trillion Egyptian pounds ($189.36 billion)

($1 = 17.8500 Egyptian pounds)

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