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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10434

5 August 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/ecb
ECB buys up state bonds on market

Brussels, 04/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 4 August, the European Central Bank (ECB) resumed buying up eurozone government bonds on the market. ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said the Bank had bought up public securities, albeit underlining that the programme had never been placed on the back burner.

The ECB resumed buying up Portuguese and Irish securities on the secondary market during the press conference of Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB President. Since March, it had not bought up...