TB rate up - 20-03-2013

VISA · 1 TB rate up - 20-03-2013 Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:35 pm

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Redbulls · 2 Re: TB rate up - 20-03-2013 Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:42 pm

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Sri Lanka Treasuries yields up
Mar 20, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Treasuries yields rose across maturities at Wednesday's auction with the 6-month yield rising 10 basis points to 10.25 percent, data from the state debt office said.

The 3-month yield rose 6-basis points to 9.22 percent and the 12-month yield rose 6-basis points to 11.26 percent.
The debt office which is a unit of the Central Bank said out of 15 billion rupees of maturing bills offered at the auction only 6.4 billion rupees was accepted from the market.

It is not clear whether the Central Bank took up the balance with printed money.

On Tuesday excess liquidity in the interbank market dropped from 43 to 17 billion rupees, which market participants believe is due to forex swap with the Central Bank being unwound.

Allowing liquidity to fall in line with the unwound swap would not weaken the currency.

But if a forex swap is unwound when liquidity is low, the Central Bank will usually print money to offset any liquidity shortage that occurs as a result, it is unwilling to allow interest rates to move up.
The effect is the broadly similar to sterilized foreign exchange sales triggering exchange rate pressure and balance of payments crises.

But higher interest rates, which can slow credit can reduce negative pressure that can come from a swap that is unwound when liquidity is low.
http://lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=1891951250

CSE.SAS · 3 Yields dip marginally ahead of weekly bill auction Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:08 pm

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The secondary market for Treasury bills and bonds was rather stagnant yesterday, with a limited amount of activity witnessed on the liquid two five year maturities (i.e.01.04.2018 and 15.08.2018), as its yields dipped during the latter part of the day to an intraday low of 11.35%.

Furthermore the four year maturity saw trades take place within the range of 11.38% to 11.40% as well. On the contrary, in secondary market bills, selling pressure was witnessed on all three maturities above its respective weighted averages.

Today’s treasury bill primary auction will have on offer a total amount of Rs 15 Bn, consisting of Rs 2 Bn of the 91 day bill, Rs 3 Bn of the 182 day bill and a further Rs 10 Bn of the 364 day bill. The weighted averages on all three maturities picked up by 5 basis points each at last week’s auction to levels of 9.16%, 10.15% and 11.19% respectively.

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Meanwhile, overnight call money and repo rates continued to remain steady to average 9.43% and 8.54% respectively, despite market liquidity reducing to a one month low of Rs 17.4 Bn yesterday. A foreign exchange swap at where rupees are drained out of the system was seen as the reason behind the dip in liquidity according to market sources. An amount of Rs. 13.03 billion was mopped up on an overnight basis by way of a Repo auction at a WAvg of 8.35%

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The Dollar/Rupee rate depreciated further yesterday to close the day at Rs 126.58 in comparison to its previous day’s closing of Rs.126.30 on the back of importer demand. The total USD/LKR traded volume for the previous day (15-03-13) stood at US $ 91.46 million. Given below are some forward dollar rates that prevailed in the market, 1 Month – 127.74; 3 Months – 129.68 and 6 Months – 132.68.