FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank bought 17.733 billion euros ($15.75 billion) of public sector assets last week as part of its quantitative easing programme, above the 17.591 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.

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