Sri Lanka short-end Treasuries edge up

24 February 2010 08:25 am


Sri Lanka's three and six month Treasury bill yields edged up at Wednesday's auction, while the 12-month yield was flat the government's debt office said.


The 6-month yield edged up 09 basis points to 8.26 percent, the 6-month yield was up 06 basis points to 9.06 percent and the 12-month yield was flat at 9.46 percent.


The debt office which is a unit of the Central Bank said it sold 13.526 billion rupees of bills to real buyers.
 

This was higher than the 12.5 billion rupees of maturing bills.
 

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