FRANKFURT, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank bought 11.858 billion euros ($10.49 billion) of public sector assets last week as part of its quantitative easing programme, above the 11.364 billion euros it purchased 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), Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP) and Covered Bond Purchase Programme 3 over the past eight weeks. The total represents the purchases in the four purchase programmes. All figures are in billions of euros. Reference Date PSPP ABS Covered bonds CSPP Total Aug 19 11.858 -0.051 0.321 1.603 13.731 Aug 12 11.364 -0.004 0.659 1.248 13.267 Aug 5 12.414 -0.069 0.746 1.764 14.855 Jul 29 16.452 0.149 0.593 1.365 18.559 Jul 22 17.453 -0.126 0.534 1.422 19.283 Jul 15 16.309 0.251 1.407 1.953 19.920 Jul 8 16.100 0.240 0.530 1.676 18.546 Jul 1 9.734 0.267 0.582 1.900 12.483 Jun 24 17.141 0.100 1.919 2.650 21.810
