Treasury fully awards P15B in T-bills
The Bureau of the Treasury fully awarded the P15 billion in new T-bills auctioned off Monday as rates fell across the board.
“Average rates came in below secondary market levels across all tenors amid healthy market demand,” the Treasury said in a statement.
Tenders reached P31.9 billion, making the auction over two times oversubscribed.
For the P6 billion in 91-day treasury bills, the average rate declined to 2.176 percent from 2.189 percent in the previous auction.
Investors tendered P15.8 billion for the three-month IOUs maturing on Nov. 2.
As for the P5 billion in 182-day debt paper, the rate was 2.529 percent.
Bids for the six-month government securities maturing on Jan. 31 next year reached P7.9 billion.
The 364-day T-bills, meanwhile, were accepted at an annual rate of 2.972 percent, down from 2.995 percent previously.
Tenders for the one-year treasury bills maturing on Aug. 1, 2017 totaled P8.2 billion.
