MUSCAT: A tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 168, worth RO 26 million was issued this week.
The results of the said issue are as follows:The total value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO 26 million, for a maturity period of 182 days, from December 28, 2022 until June 28, 2023.
The average accepted price reached RO 97.589 for every RO 100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at RO 97.550 per RO 100. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 4.83517 per cent and 4.95464 per cent, respectively.
The interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 5.00 per cent while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 5.50 per cent.
The Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Ministry of Finance, and they provide licensed commercial banks the opportunity to invest their surplus funds.
The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) acts as the Issue Manager and provides the added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo).
Furthermore, Treasury Bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. Additionally, the government may also resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures. -- ONA
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