FRANCOFORTE, 11 gennaio (Reuters) - The European Central Bank bought 8.687 billion euros ($7.99 billion) of public sector assets last week as part of its quantitative easing programme, no purchase a week earlier, it said on Monday. The following table details the ECB's purchases in the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), Asset Backed Securities Programme (ABS) and Covered Bond Purchase Programme 3 over the past eight weeks. The total represents the purchases in the three purchase programmes. All figures are in billions of euros. Reference Date PSPP ABS Covered bonds Total Jan 8 8.687 0.027 0.591 9.305 Jan 1 -1.836 -0.128 -0.476 -2.440 Dec 25 6.362 -0.110 0.452 6.704 Dec 18 11.177 0.127 1.545 12.849 Dec 11 13.599 0.098 1.896 15.593 Dec 4 16.459 0.136 2.102 18.697 Nov 27 13.746 0.234 2.127 16.107 Nov 20 12.565 0.156 1.559 14.280 Nov 13 12.577 0.056 1.614 14.247 ($1 = 1.0877 euros) For more detail on the ECB's asset purchases, please click: here