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Central Bank of Oman issues treasury bills worth RO59mn

27 Apr 2021 By ONA

A tender of the government treasury bills (issue number 154) was announced by the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) this week.

Total value of the allotted treasury bills amounted to RO59mn, for a maturity period of 182 days (from today until October 27, 2021). 

The average accepted price reached RO99.601 for every RO100 bill, and the minimum accepted price arrived at RO99.575. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.80050 per cent and 0.80371 per cent, respectively.

The interest rate on the repo operations with the CBO is 0.5 per cent while the discount rate on the treasury bills discounting facility with the CBO is 0.75 per cent.

Treasury bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Ministry of Finance, and they provide licensed commercial banks the opportunity to invest their surplus funds.

The CBO acts as the issue manager and provides the added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (repo). Treasury bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. 

Additionally, the government may also resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures.

 

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