CBO issues treasury bills worth OMR60.4 million

Muscat: The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) Oman raised OMR60.4 million by way of allotting treasury bills on Tuesday.

The treasury bills are for a maturity period for a maturity period of 182 days, from October 27, 2021 until April 27, 2022.

The average accepted price reached 99.615 for every OMR100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.610 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 0.77311 per cent and 0.77610 per cent, respectively.

The interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 0.5 per cent while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 0.75 per cent, for the same period.

The treasury bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the CBO on behalf of the Government, which helps the licensed commercial banks to gainfully invest their surplus funds, with added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo) offered by the Central Bank.

Further, treasury bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. Also, the Government (MOF) may also resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures.