09/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - In the week ending 3 August, the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency decreased by 0.4 billion euro, to 273.7 billion euro, due to customer and portfolio transactions, says the European Central Bank (ECB) in its weekly bulleting published on Tuesday. It adds that the decrease of 24 million euro in gold and gold receivables is due to the issue of commemorative gold DM 1 coins by one national central bank of the Eurosystem and the sale of 1 tonne of...