In the week ending 1 July 2022 the decrease of EUR 59 million in gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) primarily 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) rose by EUR 12.4 billion to EUR 343.6 billion. This change was due to the effects of the quarterly revaluation of assets and liabilities of EUR 12.3 billion and an increase of EUR 0.2 billion on account of customer and portfolio transactions.
As a result of the Eurosystem’s open market operations and standing facilities, net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) decreased by EUR 155.7 billion to EUR 1,387.6 billion, owing mainly to the changes in the level of the deposit facility (liability item 2.2) and the longer-term refinancing operations (asset item 5.2).
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) fell by EUR 47.9 billion to EUR 6,193.2 billion.
The table below provides the detailed breakdown of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) into the different portfolios. All portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.
| Monetary policy securities portfolios | Reported value as at 1 July 2022 | Weekly change – purchases | Weekly change – redemptions | Weekly change – quarter-end adjustments |
| Covered bond purchase programme 1 | EUR 0.0 billion | – | – | +EUR 0.0 billion |
| Securities Markets Programme | EUR 3.4 billion | – | – | +EUR 0.0 billion |
| Covered bond purchase programme 2 | EUR 0.2 billion | – | – | +EUR 0.0 billion |
| Covered bond purchase programme 3 | EUR 302.3 billion | +EUR 1.3 billion | – | -EUR 0.3 billion |
| Asset-backed securities purchase programme | EUR 25.4 billion | +EUR 0.3 billion | -EUR 0.5 billion | -EUR 0.0 billion |
| Public sector purchase programme | EUR 2,593.7 billion | +EUR 5.2 billion | -EUR 2.0 billion | -EUR 2.6 billion |
| Corporate sector purchase programme | EUR 345.0 billion | +EUR 1.4 billion | -EUR 0.3 billion | -EUR 0.3 billion |
| Pandemic emergency purchase programme | EUR 1,693.6 billion | +EUR 4.6 billion | -EUR 3.2 billion | -EUR 3.8 billion |
Quarter-end revaluation of the Eurosystem’s assets and liabilities
In line with the Eurosystem’s harmonised accounting rules, gold, foreign exchange and financial instruments (including part of the securities holdings not purchased for monetary policy purposes) 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 30 June 2022 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 1,738.856 per fine oz.
USD: 1.0387 per EUR
JPY: 141.54 per EUR
CNY: 6.9624 per EUR
Special drawing rights: EUR 1.2778 per SDR
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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