RPT-SNB says bought $27 bln in forex toward end of 2014 to defend franc
March 26, 2015 at 02:43 AM EDT
ZURICH, March 26 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank (SNB) said it bought foreign currency totalling 25.8 billion Swiss francs ($26.91 billion) at the end of last year as part of a bid to defend the currency before abandoning a peg, it said in its annual report on Thursday.