Category: Bills & Bonds

Feb 25, 2009 (LBO) – Yields of Treasury bills stayed flat across maturities at an auction Wednesday, the government’s debt office said while bonds spiked amid foreign selling earlier in the day. The government sold 1.8 billion rupees of 3-month bills at a weighted average yield of 15.76 percent, 527 million rupees of 6-month bills […]

Feb 19, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Treasury bill yields were flat at an auction Wednesday, with the government selling 4.2 billion of the 7.0 billion bills offered for sale.The 12-month yield eased 01 basis points to 17.73 percent, the 6-month also by a basis point to 16.93 percent and the 3-month by 02 basis […]

Feb 11, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields fell less-than-expected across maturities following a 50 basis point cut in the island’s de facto policy discount rate, dealers said. Since Friday the market had already partially discounted the rates cuts, they said. The Central Bank cut the 17.0 percent unrestricted ‘penalty’ reverse repo rate, which […]

JAKARTA, February 10, 2009 (AFP) – Indonesia launched its first retail Islamic bond this month hoping to catch up with its neighbours in the Islamic finance business and help fund a six-billion-dollar economic stimulus package. It may be the world’s most populous Muslim country and Southeast Asia’s largest economy but Indonesia has been slow to […]

Feb 05, 2009 (LBO) – The US dollar touched 114.05 rupees in active ‘value tomorrow’ dealing with a state bank on the buying side Thursday, despite official intervention at a lower rate on spot trades, dealers said.The spot dollar – which is settled two market days later – is closely watched by authorities, with a […]

Feb 03, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields edged up at Tuesday’s auction with a larger volume of bills being sold compared to a week earlier, the government’s debt office said, reversing a steadily easing trend seen over several weeks.The 3-month yield gained 05 basis points to 15.99 percent, the 6-month yield gained […]

Jan 28, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields extended falls with the popular 3-month yield falling 24 basis points to 15.94 percent and the 12-month yield falling 0.04 basis points to 17.56 percent, the government’s debt office said. Meanwhile in the inter bank market the central bank had printed 20 billion rupees to […]

Jan 21, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Treasury bill yields fell across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with the government raising 4.7 billion rupees, the government’s debt office, which is a unit of the central bank, said. The 3-month yield fell 61 basis points to 16.18 percent. The 6-month yield fell 33 basis points to 16.89 […]

Jan 16, 2008 (LBO) – Overnight money rates spiked in Sri Lanka’s inter bank market and bond rates picked up amid tighter liquidity and the monetary authority opened its 12.00 percent liquidity facility, dealers said. Market participants parked 7.7 billion rupees at the repo window of the central bank by Friday while borrowing 14.1 billion […]

Jan 13, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka bond yields plunged Tuesday and recovered to settle lower than a day earlier, following a cut in the unrestricted discount window rate of the central bank by 200 basis points overnight, dealers said. The 01.04.2012 bond started at 18.90/19.0 percent levels, fell to 18.65/75 levels and went up […]

Jan 07, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan gilts edged lower amid a flight to quality and excess liquidity in the inter bank market, as well as lower inflation expectations for the current year, dealers said. A bond maturing in April 01, 2012 fell from the auction level of 20.02 percent to 19.80 percent levels and […]

Nov 24, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Bank of Ceylon has raised 4.27 billion rupees from 5-year bonds in fixed and floating rates, issue managers Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka said. The debenture would be listed on the DEX board of the Colombo Stock Exchange. Bank of Ceylon has a ‘AA(lka)’ rating from Fitch.The […]