Over 1 billion USD worth of Gov’t bonds raised in January

The State Treasury raised over 23.49 trillion VND (over 1 billion USD) worth of Government bonds via 12 auctions on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) in January.
Over 1 billion USD worth of Gov’t bonds raised in January ảnh 1Over 1 billion USD worth of Gov’t bonds raised in January. - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) -The State Treasury raised over 23.49 trillion VND (over 1 billionUSD) worth of Government bonds via 12 auctions on the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) in January.

The successful rate of bids was 90.36 percent.

Interest rates of bonds in successful bids decreasedon the maturities of 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and 30 years, with reduction rangingfrom 0.11 – 0.15 percent each year.

On the secondary G-bond market, the average trading value reached 15.174trillion VND per session, up 8.16 percent month-on-month and the highest sincethe beginning of 2020.

The total outright purchases of G-bonds in the month hit over 1.82 billion bondsvalued at 202.1 trillion VND, down 5.42 percent in value from December lastyear.

Meanwhile, the total volume traded via repos reached over 957.7 million bonds, worthmore than 101.3 trillion VND, down 6.97 percent from the previous month.

Foreign investors made outright purchases of over 8.75 trillion VND, and outrightsales of 5.93 trillion VND./.


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