The amount was 15.3 percent lower than that of theprevious month. About 79.4 percent of G-bonds offered were sold.
G-bonds withdifferent maturities experienced 0.6 – 1.71 percent declines in annual interestrates.
On the secondary G-bond market, trading volume averagednearly 9.46 trillion VND per session, a month-on-month decrease of 0.08 percent.
Total outright purchases of G-bonds in the month amounted over 98 trillion VND, down 10 percent against the previous month,while total trading volume of G-bonds via repurchasing agreements (repos) wasvalued 62.6 trillion VND, down 30 percent.
Foreign investors made outright purchases of more than 4.3 trillion VND, and outright sales of some 3.6 trillion VND. They did not makeany repo transactions.
Total listed G-bonds were valued at more than 1.13 quadrillion VND as of January 31./.