The European Central Bank it put 130,622 billion on the market in the weekly three-year repo auction. In the previous week, 144,755 billion had been placed. The operation, which was attended by 138 credit institutions (171 in that of 27 December), took place at a fixed rate of 1%.
The ECB also drained all of the 211,5 billion euros envisaged in the seven-day operation aimed at sterilizing the purchase of government bonds on the secondary market. The requests, presented by 134 banks, amounted to 336,926 billion with a minimum rate of 0,29% and a maximum indicated by the ECB at 1%. The average rate of the transaction was 0,36%, the marginal 0,44%.
Tomorrow, value date of today's transaction, funds of 211 billion are in return. In fact, the central bank in Frankfurt announced yesterday that it had bought eurozone government bonds in the last week on the secondary market for 462 million against 19 million the previous week.
