MOSCOW, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Russian central bank injected

25.67 billion roubles ($878.2 million) of one-day funds into the

banking system at a rate of 6.88 percent in its first repo

auction of the day on Thursday.

The minimum interest rate was set at 6.75 percent.

A maximum of 30 billion roubles had been on offer at the two

repo auctions scheduled for the day.

Following are results of the latest auction, provided by the

central bank on its Web site (www.cbr.ru):

Date Nov 5 Nov 3 Nov 3

Session 1st 2nd 1st

Amount (bln rbls) 25.67 0.13 29.84

Bids (bln rbls) 35.83 0.17 29.84

Average rate 6.88 6.95 6.96

NOTE - For details of central bank repo tenders click here .

($1=29.23 Rouble) Keywords: RUSSIA REPO/FIRST

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