CAIRO- Egypt will auction $1 billion worth of one-year dollar-denominated treasury bills next Monday, the central bank said on Thursday.

The auction will be settled on Tuesday, the bank said.

One-year bills worth about $1.15 billion are due to mature on the same day. The average yield on those bills was 3.495 percent.

In the last dollar-denominated treasury bill auction, on Nov 19, the average yield was 3.697 percent.

(Reporting by Lena Masri; Editing by Toby Chopra and Patrick Werr) ((Lena.Masri@thomsonreuters.com;))