Before the auction the European Central Bank intervened to buy Portuguese and other euro-area bonds.

拍卖前，欧洲中央银行曾实施干预措施，买入葡萄牙和其它一些欧元区债券。

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These problems have made the central bank unenthusiastic about selling renminbi and buying foreign bonds so as to hold down the value of the currency, people close to the central bank said.

据接近央行的人士说，诸如此类的问题使得央行对卖出人民币，买入外国债券，以压低人民币价格的做法越来越不感兴趣。

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The central bank is to buy Treasury bonds and buy back currency-stabilization bonds before maturity, as well as buying bonds through its repurchase operations in the money market.

韩国央行不仅会通过在货币市场上进行回购买进债券，还将买进国库债券，回购未到期货币稳定债券。

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Under the asset purchasing programme the central bank buys bonds in order to keep the long-term cost of borrowing down.

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Crucially, the European Central Bank is to start buying bonds - government debt - something the European Central Bank said it would never do when it was established.

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In a normally functioning economy, when the central bank buys government bonds, it injects money into the banking system where it will be lent out, facilitating growth.

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