INVESTORS’ appetite for treasury bills has started to pick up to register over-subscriptions after weeks of poor performance largely due to liquidity squeeze in the circulation.
In the short term government paper
auctioned by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) on Wednesday shows that total
bids of 207.25bn/- were tendered compared to 139bn/- offered to the
market for bidding and at the 134.35bn/-became successful amount.
Yield rates declined across all tenures
but did not affect the performance of the short term government note to
attract more bids, the situation implying the easing liquidity squeeze
in the market.
The two tenures 364 and 182 days contributed about 99 per cent of the total bids while 91 and 35 shared less than one per cent.
The 364 and 182 days offer attracted
bids worth 129.32bn/- and 77.57bn/-respectively against 75bn/-and 50bn/-
offered to the market for bidding while the 91 days offer attracted
358.36m/-.
Yield rates for the 364 and 182 days
offer was 15.86 per cent and 15.68 per cent compared to 15.91 per cent
and 15.73 per cent respectively of the previous session held two weeks
ago.
The 91 days tenure interest rate was 7.46 per cent compared to 7.54 per cent of the preceding session.
The highest and lowest bid/100 for the
364 and 182 days offers were 88.10/83.51 and 93.00/ 87.75 respectively
while for the 91 and 35 days tenor had 98.20/98.15. The minimum
successful price/100 for the 364, 182 and 91 days offer were 85.90,
92.66 and 98.15respectively.
The weighed average price for successful
bid for the 364 tenure was 86.34, the 182 days offer was 92.75 and 91
days offer was 98.17. Major investors in the one year treasury bills are
commercial banks, pension funds, insurance companies and some
microfinance institutions.
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