Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations in the period from 1 November 2017 to 30 January 2018

This box describes the ECB's monetary policy operations during the seventh and eighth reserve maintenance periods of 2018, which ran from 1 November to 19 December 2017 and from 20 December 2017 to 30 January 2018 respectively. During this period, the interest rates on the main refinancing operations (MROs), the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility remained unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.40% respectively. JEL Classification: E40, E52, E58