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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 13 December 2024
17 December 2024
In the week ending 13 December 2024 gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) decreased by EUR 0.2 billion owing to transactions in gold.
The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 0.8 billion to EUR 328.1 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) rose by EUR 31.5 billion to ‑EUR 2,819.7 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 7 billion to EUR 4,641.4 billion.
The table below provides the detailed breakdown of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) into the different portfolios. All debt securities held in these portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.
Table 1
Monetary policy securities portfolios | Reported value as at 13 December 2024 | Weekly change – purchases [1] | Weekly change – redemptions |
Securities Markets Programme | EUR 1.3 billion | - | - |
Covered bond purchase programme 3 | EUR 253.8 billion | - | -EUR 0.6 billion |
Asset-backed securities purchase programme | EUR 7.4 billion | - | -EUR 0.0 billion |
Public sector purchase programme | EUR 2,132.3 billion | -EUR 0.1 billion | -EUR 1.8 billion |
Corporate sector purchase programme | EUR 289.7 billion | -EUR 0.0 billion | -EUR 1.4 billion |
Pandemic emergency purchase programme | EUR 1,614.2 billion | +EUR 0.9 billion | -EUR 2.9 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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