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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 6 December 2024
10 December 2024
In the week ending 6 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 0.5 billion to EUR 327.4 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 3 billion to ‑EUR 2,851.2 billion. This was due primarily to the change in the level of the main refinancing operations (asset item 5.1).
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) rose by EUR 13 billion to EUR 4,634.4 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 6 December 2024 | Weekly change – purchases [1] | Weekly change – redemptions |
Securities Markets Programme | EUR 1.3 billion | - | - |
Covered bond purchase programme 3 | EUR 254.4 billion | - | -EUR 0.5 billion |
Asset-backed securities purchase programme | EUR 7.4 billion | - | -EUR 0.0 billion |
Public sector purchase programme | EUR 2,134.1 billion | -EUR 0.1 billion | -EUR 9.4 billion |
Corporate sector purchase programme | EUR 291.2 billion | -EUR 0.1 billion | -EUR 1.0 billion |
Pandemic emergency purchase programme | EUR 1,616.2 billion | +EUR 0.9 billion | -EUR 4.1 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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