Sri Lanka Treasuries yields up

Feb 22, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields rose 20 basis points across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the one year yield reaching 10.

19 percent, the state debt office said. The 3-month yield increased 20 basis points to 9.

51 percent and the 6-month yield rose 20 basis points to 9.64 percent.

The debt office, which is a unit of the Central Bank said out of 10 billion rupees of bills offered for sale, bids for 9.

2 billion was accepted from the market.

The debt office sold 6.7 billion rupees in 3-month bills, one billion in 6-month bills and 1.

3 billion rupees in 12-month bills.

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