Category: Bills & Bonds

May 16, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s three month Treasuries yields dropped, though longer tenures moved up with record volumes of bills being sold by open auction, data released by the state office showed. The 3-month yield dropped 20 basis points to 11. 99 basis points, the 6-month yield rose 10 basis points to 12. […]

May 09, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields rose across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with 11. 9 billion rupees of bills being sold to market bidders, the state debt office said. The 3-month yield rose 09 basis points to 12. 19 percent, the 6-month yield rose 10 basis points to 12. 30 percent and […]

May 02, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields rose across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with 12. 4 billion rupees of bills being sold, the state debt office said. The 3-month yield rose 18 basis point to 12. 11 percent, the 6-month yield rose 15 basis points to 12. 20 percent and the 12-month yield […]

Apr 30, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will roll-over a maturing 500 million US dollar bond which is maturing in October 2012 and extend its tenor to 10-years, Treasury secretary P B Jayasundera said. In 2007, Sri Lanka sold its maiden 500 million dollar sovereign bond. Jayasundera said whether another 500 million US dollars would […]

Apr 26, 2012 (LBO) – Subscriptions for a 500 million dollar bond by Sri Lanka’s state-run Bank of Ceylon in international markets has opened and is attracting orders, sources familiar with the matter said. . The lender hired Bank of America, Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings to sell the bond after a series of investor […]

Apr 25, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s rupee will be supported by inflows which are expected to be sold in the market ending current speculation and the Central Bank has space to provide dollars for oil if needed, Governor Nivard Cabraal said. Governor Cabraal said the Central Bank was ready to supply dollar for oil […]

Apr 25, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields rose 20 basis points across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the 12 month yield reaching 12. 16 percent, the state debt office said. The 6-month yield also topped 12. 0 percent to reach 12.05 percent and the 3-month yield reached 11. 93 basis points. The debt […]

Apr 18, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields rose again across maturities at Wednesday’s auction following an increase of more than 50 basis points last week, data from the debt office showed. The auction was oversubscribed with bids amounting to 22,776 million rupees being received. The 3-month yield rose 11 basis points to […]

Apr 17, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-owned Bank of Ceylon has hired several foreign banks to arrange bond investor meetings in Asia, Europe and the US ahead of a planned new bond issue. It has hired Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings to arrange bond investor meetings, Bloomberg news agency […]

Apr 09, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields rose more than 50 basis points across maturities following a rate hike at Monday’s auction held two days earlier due to traditional holidays later in the week, data from the debt office showed. Higher Treasury bill yields are needed to correct an imbalance in the […]

Apr 06, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has retained the confidence of foreign holders of government debt by taking firm corrective steps to fix a balance of payments crisis, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said. The rupee has now strengthened to around 125 to the US dollar from a low of 131 rupees, though there […]

Apr 03, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields were held flat by at Wednesday’s auction ending several weeks of corrections that helped push up market rates to reduce pressure on the exchange rate. However other data indicated that Sri Lanka has lost over 200 million dollars of reserves in just two days in […]