Category: Bills & Bonds

Feb 22, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will study market conditions for a bond sale this year, Treasury secretary P B Jayasundera said. “We have to study the market conditions,” Jayasundera said. “In any case it takes about six months preparation to launch a bond.” Last September Sri Lanka raised a billion dollars from international […]

Feb 14, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields were steady at the weekly auction with the government selling 13. 5 billion rupees in bills after offering 11. 0 billion rupees of paper for roll-over. The government’s debt office which is a unit of the Central Bank said the three-month yields were steady at 6.99 […]

Feb 09, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields were steady at Wednesday’s auction with the government selling 13. 5 billion rupees in bills after offering 11. 0 billion rupees of paper for roll-over. The government’s debt office which is a unit of the Central Bank said the 3-month yield eased one basis point to […]

Feb 02, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bills yields eased at Tuesday’s auction with the government raising 21. 5 billion rupees after offering 11 billion rupees in bills for roll-over. The 3-month yield fell one basis point to 7. 00 percent, the 6-month yield also fell one basis point to 7. 09 percent and […]

Jan 26, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bills yields were steady at Wednesday’s auction with the government raising 13. 2 billion rupees after offering to 11. 5 billion rupees of bills for roll-over. The 3-month yield was flat at 7.01 percent, the 6-month yield was up one basis point to 7. 10 percent and […]

Jan 12, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields fell across maturities at Wednesday auction following 25 basis point rate cut a day earlier. The debt office said it accepted 11,000 million rupees of bids from the auction. The yield on 3-month bills fell 17 basis points to 7. 07 percent the government’s debt […]

Jan 06, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s short-term Treasury bill yields stayed largely steady at Wednesday’s auction with the government rolling ten billion rupees worth of maturing bonds, the debt office said. The yield on three-month bills stayed flat at 7. 24 percent while that on six-month bills fell to 7.33 percent from 7.35 percent […]

Dec 29, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s short-term Treasury bill yields eased at Wednesday’s auction with the government rolling five billion rupees worth of maturing bonds, the debt office said. The yield on three-months bills fell to 7.24 percent from 7.25 percent, that on six-month bills also fell to 7.35 percent from 7.38 percent while […]

Dec 22, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields across all tenors remained steady at Wednesday’s auction with the government rolling over nine billion rupees worth of maturing bonds, the debt office said. The debt office said it accepted 9,165 million rupees from the auction. The yield on three-months bills stayed flat at 7. […]

Dec 15, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s three-month and six-month Treasury bill yields fell slightly at Wednesday’s auction with the government rolling over 10,883 million rupees worth of bonds, the debt office said. The debt office said the auction for the re-issue of 11,000 million rupees of maturing Treasury bills was oversubscribed with bids amounting […]

Dec 08, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Treasuries yeilds were steady at Wednesday’s despite raising fresh debt, the government’s debt office said. The 3-month yield edged 01 basis point lower to 7.27 percent, the 6-month yield was flat at 7.39 percent and the 12-month yield was also flat at 7. 55 percent. The government sold […]

Dec 01, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields were steady across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with 11. 0 billion rupees in bonds being sold to real buyers, the government’s debt office said. The government sold 2.0 billion rupees in 3-month bills, 4. 0 billion rupess in 6-month bills and 5. 0 billion rupees […]