Dec 12 (Reuters) - Bahrain's M2 money supply growth slowed

to a four-month low of 6.7 percent year-on-year at the end of

October from 8.9 percent in the previous month, the Gulf

country's central bank data showed on Wednesday.

Bank lending growth to the private sector decelerated to 9.4

percent year-on-year in October, its lowest level since

September 2011, from 10.5 percent in September, the data also

showed.

BAHRAIN MONEY SUPPLY END-OCT 12 END-SEPT 12 END-OCT 11

M1 change yr/yr (pct) 6.2 12.7 12.8

M2 change yr/yr 6.7 8.9 4.0

M2-M1 change yr/yr 7.0 7.1 0.2

Private sector credit yr/yr 9.4 10.5 11.7

BAHRAIN C.BANK NET FOREIGN ASSETS

bln dinars 1.833 1.668 1.565

change yr/yr (pct) 17.1 2.6 -12.3

NOTE. Percentage changes are Reuters calculations based on

official data.

($1 = 0.377 Bahraini dinars)

(Reporting by Martin Dokoupil; Editing by Amran Abocar)

Keywords: BAHRAIN MONEYSUPPLY/

(Martin.Dokoupil@thomsonreuters.com)(+971 4 362 5832)(Reuters Messaging: martin.dokoupil.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)

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