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Consolidated financial statement of the Eurosystem as at 2 July 2010

7 July 2010

Items not related to monetary policy operations

In the week ending 2 July 2010 the increase of EUR 65.4 billion in gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) reflected quarterly revaluation adjustments.

The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 18.2 billion to EUR 190.9 billion. This was due mainly to the effects of the quarterly revaluation of assets and liabilities, with customer and portfolio transactions carried out by Eurosystem central banks during the period under review resulting in an increase of EUR 0.2 billion.

The holdings by the Eurosystem of securities other than those held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.2) decreased by EUR 2.7 billion to EUR 296.7 billion, mainly on account of revaluations. Banknotes in circulation (liability item 1) increased by EUR 6.7 billion to EUR 816.5 billion. Liabilities to general government (liability item 5.1) decreased by EUR 39.7 billion to EUR 115.7 billion.

Items related to monetary policy operations

The Eurosystem’s net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) decreased by EUR 117.9 billion to EUR 416.9 billion. On Wednesday, 30 June 2010, a main refinancing operation of EUR 151.5 billion matured and a new one of EUR 162.9 billion was settled. On the same date fixed-term deposits in an amount of EUR 51 billion matured and new deposits in an amount of EUR 31.9 billion, with a maturity of one week were collected. On Thursday, 1 July 2010, a longer-term refinancing operation of EUR 2 billion, with a maturity of three months, matured and a new one of EUR 131.9 billion was settled, as was a liquidity-providing fine-tuning operation of EUR 111.2 billion, with a maturity of six days. On the same date, a longer-term refinancing operation of EUR 442.2 billion, with a maturity of one year, matured.

Recourse to the marginal lending facility (asset item 5.5) was EUR 0.5 billion (compared with EUR 0.6 billion in the previous week), while recourse to the deposit facility (liability item 2.2) was EUR 231.7 billion (compared with EUR 284.4 billion in the preceding week).

The holdings by the Eurosystem of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) increased by EUR 5 billion to EUR 120.1 billion, mainly as a result of settled purchases of EUR 3.7 billion under the Securities Markets Programme and of EUR 1.3 billion under the euro-denominated covered bond purchase programme.

Current accounts of euro area credit institutions

As a result of all transactions, the current account position of credit institutions with the Eurosystem (liability item 2.1) decreased by EUR 84.7 billion to EUR 160.4 billion.

Quarter-end revaluation of the Eurosystem’s assets and liabilities

In line with the Eurosystem’s harmonised accounting rules, gold, foreign exchange, securities holdings and financial instruments of the Eurosystem are revalued at market rates and prices as at the end of each quarter. The net impact of the revaluation on each balance sheet item as at 2 July 2010 is shown in the additional column “ Difference compared with last week due to quarter-end adjustments”. The gold price and the principal exchange rates used for the revaluation of balances were as follows:

Gold: EUR 1010.920 per fine oz.

USD: 1.2271 per EUR

JPY: 108.79 per EUR

Special drawing rights: EUR 1.2046 per SDR

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