6-month yield was also frozen at 5.90 percent and 3,138 million rupees were accepted from 8,568 million rupees.
The debt office offered 10,000 million rupees of maturing debt and the auction was oversubscribed with bids amounting to 33,055 million rupees being received. It was decided to accept 12,671 million rupees from the auction.
The debt office which is part of the island's central bank offered 3-month short term bills for the auction at 5.80 percent.
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