Category: Bills & Bonds

Dec 24, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Treasuries yields fell further at Monday’s auction held two days earlier due to Christmas holidays, with the 12-month yield falling as much as 49 basis points to 11. 69 percent. Since November 30, 3-month yields have fallen 79 basis points, the 6-month yield has fallen 77 basis points […]

Dec 21, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Credit and Finance Plc will sell debentures to raise 500 million rupees, which will be listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange. The CSE said the firm has been given the nod to sell 2.5 million unsecured, subordinated debentures and upsize the issue by another 2.5 million if […]

Dec 19, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields plunged at Wednesday’s auction for the second week running with the 12 month rate falling as much as 27 basis points to 12. 18 percent, data from the state debt office showed. The 3-month yield fell 21 basis points to 10.23 percent and the 6-month yield […]

Dec 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has decided not to sell a sovereign bond in 2013, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said, urging commercial banks to tap the international capital market more. “Government will not be taking direct loans from abroad,” Cabraal told bank directors at a forum in Colombo. “Commercial borrowing from the […]

Dec 12, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields tumbled across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the 12-month yield falling as much as 41 basis points, data from the state debt office showed. The debt office said it sold a billion rupees of 3-month bills, 3. 9 billion rupees of 6-month bills and 8.5 billion […]

Dec 04, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s NDB Investment Bank and CRISIL Limited, India has developed a family of gilt indices which will help investors to benchmark investments and come up with index based funds and derivatives, officials said. NDBIB-CRISIL 91 day, T-bill index, NDBIB-CRISIL 364 day T-bill Index, NDBIB-CRISIL 3-T-Bond Index and NDBIB-CRISIL 5-year […]

Nov 28, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields edged up across maturities with the three month rate moving up 05 basis points to 10. 79 percent at Wednesday’s auction, data from the state debt office showed. The 6-month yield rose 02 basis points to 12. 09 percent and the 12-month yield rose 04 basis […]

Nov 25, 2012 (LBO) – State-run Bank of Ceylon said it had raised 6. 0 billion rupees in subscriptions from a debentures and closed the offer on November 23, making it the biggest even rupee bond sale by a Sri Lanka based financial institution. The bonds came with floating and fixed coupons, with one type […]

Nov 22, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields rose across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the 12-month yield rising as much as 08 basis points to 12. 81 percent, data from the state debt office showed. The bills stock which was around 206 billion rupees a last week rose to 212 billion rupees on […]

Nov 20, 2012 (LBO) – A debenture sale by state-run Bank of Ceylon has so far received 4. 0 billion rupees worth subscriptions, the lender said in a stock exchange filing. The bank offered 3.0 billion rupees of 5-year debentures and said it would offer a further 3. 0 billion if the first tranche was […]

Nov 14, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yield rose as much as 08 basis points to 12. 73 percent for the 12-month maturity but the 3-month yield fell 01 basis point to 10. 67 percent, data from the state debt office showed. The 6-month yield rose 03 basis points to 12.05 percent. The debt […]