Saturday, November 26, 2016

Bonds demand surges as liquidity improves

DAILY NEWS Reporter

IMPROVED liquidity in the market has resulted into investors’ active participation in the five years treasury bonds auction held by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Wednesday.

The auction results show that BoT managed to collect bids worth 113.87bn/-, higher than 105bn/- offered for tendering.
Key participants on the five-year treasury bonds are pension funds, commercial banks, insurance firms and some microfinance institutions. Despite high investors’ appetite on the five-year treasury bonds, the government retained 60.32bn/- as successful amount.
The National Microfinance Bank (NMB) says in its e-market report that liquidity has improved in the market, with overnight weighted average rate at 12.04 per cent. Investors active participation in the long term debt securities is an indication that liquidity situation in the market has picked after months of tight liquidity stance.
Funds raised through sale of treasury bonds are spent in the infrastructure development and other social services. Weighted average yield to maturity was 17.96 per cent higher than 17.87 per cent offered in the previous five years treasury bonds held in September, this year.
Similarly, weighted average coupon yield was 12.78 per cent slightly above the 12.74 per cent of the preceding session. The minimum successful price/100 was 71.00 while the weighted average price for successful bids 71.79.
The Highest Bid /100 was 75.00 and the minimum bid/100 was 65.59. The five years treasury bonds attracted a total number of bids of 140 and successful bids 99.

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