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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 22 March 2024
26 March 2024
In the week ending 22 March 2024 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) decreased by EUR 1.6 billion to EUR 315.6 billion.
The net balance of open market operations and standing facilities (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) fell by EUR 21.1 billion to ‑EUR 3,124.5 billion. This was due primarily to the change in the level of the deposit facility (liability item 2.2).
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) increased by EUR 16.1 billion to EUR 5,219 billion.
The table below provides the detailed breakdown of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) into the different portfolios. All portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.
Table 1
Monetary policy securities portfolios | Reported value as at 22 March 2024 | Weekly change – purchases [1] | Weekly change – redemptions |
Securities Markets Programme | EUR 1.3 billion | - | -EUR 1.1 billion |
Covered bond purchase programme 3 | EUR 274.8 billion | - | -EUR 1.1 billion |
Asset-backed securities purchase programme | EUR 10.9 billion | - | -EUR 1.6 billion |
Public sector purchase programme | EUR 2,343.0 billion | - | -EUR 3.0 billion |
Corporate sector purchase programme | EUR 317.0 billion | - | -EUR 0.6 billion |
Pandemic emergency purchase programme | EUR 1,671.0 billion | +EUR 4.7 billion | -EUR 4.0 billion |
[1] With the discontinuation of the reinvestments under the asset purchase programme, this column may sometimes show negative amounts. These are expected to be infrequent and would result from sales of securities conducted, for instance, for risk management purposes.
The content and format of the weekly financial statement are set out in Annexes IV to VI of Guideline (EU) 2016/2249 of the European Central Bank of 3 November 2016 on the legal framework for accounting and financial reporting in the European System of Central Banks (ECB/2016/34).
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