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Treasury bills tender results

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Muscat: A tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 519, held at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week.


The results of issue are as follows:


The total value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO55 million, for a maturity period of 91 days, from July  22, 2020 until October 21, 2020.


The average accepted price reached 99.814 for every RO100 while the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.800 per RO100. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.74459 per cent and 0.74598 per cent, respectively.


Note that the interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 0.5 per cent while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 1 per cent.


Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Central Bank of Oman on behalf of the Government, which help the licensed commercial banks to gainfully invest their surplus funds, with added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo) offered by the Central Bank.


Furthermore, Treasury Bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. Additionally, the Government (MOF) may also resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures. --ONA


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