Sri Lanka Treasuries yields marginally down

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yield fell across maturities at Wednesday’s auction with all bills offered sold, data from the state debt office showed.

The debt office sold 2.6 billion rupees of 3-month bills (after offering 5.0 billion) at an average yield of 4.59 percent down from 4.65 last week.

15.4 billion rupees of 6-month bills were sold (after offering 15.0 billion) at an average yield of 4.71 percent down from 4.76 percent last week.

22.0 billion rupees 12-month bills were sold (after offering 20 billion) at an average yield of 4.90 percent, down from 4.93 percent last week.

A total of 40 billion rupees of bills were sold after offering 40 billion. (Colombo/Aug19/2020)