TIRANA, Jan 20lbania’s central bank has injected 322.54 billion leks ($3.31 billion/2.34 billion euro) in the third quarter of last year, mostly through one-week repo deals, it said on Wednesday.
Bank of Albania injected 233.59 billion leks through one-week repo deals in the second quarter of 2009.
In the third quarter the Bank of Albania injected an average 23.03 billion leks a week in one-week reverse repo deals and an average 3.33 billion leks per auction in one-month and an average 3.25 billion leks per auction in three-month reverse repo deals, it said in a statement.
The central bank also used one-day deposits to regulate daily liquidity – by using 0.35 billion leks on average over the third quarter, compared to 0.14 billion leks in the previous quarter. It also used one-day credits once, injecting 5.7 million leks.
The central bank did not intervene in the domestic foreign exchange market in the third quarter.
Central Bank has injected 2.34 billion euro in liquidity in third quarter of 2009
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