FRANKFURT, Aug 7 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank bought a net 11.998 billion euros ($10.18 billion) of public sector assets last week as part of its quantitative easing programme, above the 9.686 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 4 11.998 0.058 0.540 1.538 14.134 Jul 28 9.686 0.005 0.408 0.787 10.886 Jul 21 12.136 -0.044 0.762 0.723 13.577 Jul 14 13.821 0.216 0.824 1.432 16.293 Jul 7 14.018 0.349 0.416 2.286 17.069 Jun 30 4.350 0.508 -0.207 1.398 6.049 Jun 23 12.460 -0.170 0.069 1.503 13.862 Jun 16 12.563 0.089 1.096 1.592 15.340 Jun 9 11.941 0.036 1.206 1.421 14.604 ($1 = 1.1786 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
