FRANCOFORTE, 9 aprile (Reuters) - The European Central Bank bought a net 8.467 billion euros ($6.88 billion) of public sector assets last week as part of its quantitative easing programme, above the 4.116 billion euros it sold 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 Apr 6 8.467 0.158 0.522 0.807 9.954 Mar 30 -4.116 -0.019 -0.295 0.238 -4.192 Mar 23 5.476 -0.259 0.176 2.224 7.617 Mar 16 3.491 0.844 0.788 1.263 6.386 Mar 9 6.233 0.429 1.041 1.671 9.374 Mar 2 5.291 -0.078 0.526 1.400 7.139 Feb 23 3.800 -0.236 0.443 1.112 5.119 Feb 16 5.690 0.007 0.709 1.674 8.080 Feb 9 6.590 0.068 1.356 1.215 9.229 ($1 = 1.2315 euros) * The figures are calculated by subtracting holdings from the previous week’s level and are not corrected for end-of-the-quarter amortization. For more detail on the ECB's asset purchases, please click: here
