MUSCAT: A tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 507 was held at the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week. The results of the issue are as follows: the total value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO 65 million, for a maturity period of 91 days, from Wednesday until April 22, 2020.


The average accepted price reached 99.544 for every RO 100 while the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.540 per RO 100. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 1.82809 per cent and 1.83646 per cent respectively.


The interest rate on the Repo operations with the CBO is 2.153 per cent for the period from January 21 to 27 while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with the CBO is 2.903 per cent for the same period.


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