Category: Bills & Bonds

Aug 26, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields were frozen at the weekly auction for the third week running, in auction where 10.1 billion rupees out of a maturing 12.0 billion was sold to the market, the government’s debt office said.The 3-month yield stayed at 10.57 percent, the 6-month yield at 11.43 percent […]

Aug 20, 2009 (LBO) – An 875 million US dollar inflow from a US-based fund will go into 4 and 6-year rupee bonds, helping push Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves above 3.0 billion dollars by Friday, Central Bank governor Nivard Cabraal said. The inflow will be directly matched with Treasury bonds and the Central Bank’s Treasury […]

Aug 13, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will issue a 500 million US dollar 5-year sovereign bond in late September or early October to international investors, a media report said.“Minimum benchmark size in the international capital market is $500 million,” Reuters news agency quoted C.J.P. Siriwardena, head of Sri Lanka’s government debt office as saying. […]

Aug 12, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka 3-month Treasury bill yields showed signs of bottoming out at Wednesday’s auction with 6 and 12 month yields up marginally, despite the government’s debt office not accepting the entire offered volume from the market. Since a float of the currency ended a balance of payments crisis in March […]

Aug 11, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has sold 190 million US dollars of 2-year bonds at an average yield of 449.8 basis points above the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) the government’s debt office said. Today’s LIBOR rate was 0.91 percent, the debt office said. On June 19, Sri Lanka sold 115.8 million US […]

July 29, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields fell across maturities with the 3-month yield falling 15 basis points to 10.64 percent, at Wednesday’s auction, the government’s debt office said. The 6-month yield fell 27 basis points to 11.46 percent and the 12-month yield fell 13 basis points to 11.97 percent. The government […]

July 22, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries fell across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the 3-month yield falling 26 basis points to 10.79 percent, the government’s debt office said.In the first four months of the year, Sri Lanka had already run a 4.0 percent of GDP deficit, putting the country on a path to […]

July 15, 2009 (LBO) – The 3-month Treasury bill yield fell 23 basis points to 11.05 percent at Wednesday’s auction, amid record excess liquidity in the banking system of 28 billion rupees. The government sold 2.5 billion rupees of 3-month bills, 3.1 billion rupees of 6-month bills and 4.8 billion rupees of 12-month bills. The […]

July 13, 2009 (LBO) – Three year bond yields edged up slightly Monday as the central bank froze its policy rate at 11.00 percent, but fell back in late trading dealers said, while yields at an auction also stayed steady. The government’s debt office which is a unit of the central bank said it sold […]

July 1, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s three and six month Treasury bill yields edged lower while the 12-month yield stayed flat at Wednesdays auction, the government’s debt office said.The 3-month yield fell 12 basis points to 11.29 percent and the 6-month yield fell 9 basis points to 11.94 percent. The 12-month yield stayed flat […]

June 25, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields fell across the board at an Auction Wednesday and the government raised 11.6 billion from an original offer to sell only 9.0 billion rupees of bills, the debt office said.The 3-month yield fell 15 basis points to 11.41 percent; the 6-month yield fell 53 basis points […]

June 19, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has sold bonds worth 115.8 million US dollars in an offer to roll over 50 million US dollars in 2-year bonds, raising 66 million US dollars in fresh funds, the government’s debt office said. The bonds were sold at a weighted average margin of 497 basis points above […]