The central bank bought the repo funds on Wednesday at an average interest rate of 7.0%, unchanged from the previous auction held on November 26, it said in a statement.
The central bank, NBRM, auctions 28-day repo funds weekly, usually on Wednesdays. It sometimes alternates the periods of the repo fund offers to 27 or 29 days. The minimum lot for banks at the repo auctions is set at one million denars.
The NBRM absorbed over 160 billion denars in repo deals in 2007. It has absorbed some 253 billion denars in repo deals since the beginning of 2008.
(1 euro = 61.6225 Macedonian denars)