FRANKFURT, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Gold and gold receivables held by euro zone central banks rose by 1 million euros to 238.169 billion euros in the week ending October 30, the European Central Bank said on Tuesday.
Net foreign exchange reserves in the Eurosystem of central banks fell by 0.5 billion euros to 174.2 billion euros, the ECB said in its regular weekly consolidated financial statement.
Gold holdings rose because of purchases of gold coin by one euro zone central bank.
The bank's balance sheet totalled 1.779 trillion euros, up from 1.786 trillion the previous week.
For details of the report, please see the ECB's Web site: http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/wfs/2009/html/index.en.html Keywords: ECB/RESERVES

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