More than 1.1 bln USD worth of G-bonds raised in April

The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) raised 25.083 trillion VND (1.103 billion USD) worth of government bonds, down 23.9 percent from March during 18 bidding sessions last month.
More than 1.1 bln USD worth of G-bonds raised in April ảnh 1Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) raised 25.083 trillion VND (1.103billion USD) worth of government bonds, down 23.9 percent from March during 18bidding sessions last month.

The five-yearbonds offer an annual interest rate of 5.1-5.22 percent while seven-year onesyield 5.43-5.48 percent, up 0.12 percent and 0.05 percent from March,respectively.

The others with 10-year,15-year, 20-year and 30-year maturity have respective coupon rates of 5.99percent, 6.74-6.79 percent, 7.1-7.36 percent, 7.63-7.85 percent, markingmonth-on-month decreases of 0.06 percent, 0.11 percent, 0.35 percent and 0.27percent.

On the secondarymarket, the total volume of outright trading topped 640 million bonds, or 67.6trillion VND (2.97 million USD), down 16.5 percent in value over last month.

The tradingvolume through repurchase agreements (repos) was more than 883 million bonds,equivalent to 85.9 trillion VND (3.77 billion USD), down 2.6 percentmonth-on-month.

Foreigninvestors made outright trading worth in excess of 5 trillion VND (220 millionUSD) in purchase value and 4.3 trillion VND (189.2 million USD) in sales value.They also made repos selling of upwards 190 billion VND (8.36 million USD) andhad no repos purchase during the month.-VNA
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