CBO issues treasury bills worth OMR55m

Business Tuesday 29/May/2018 14:50 PM
By: Times News Service
CBO issues treasury bills worth OMR55m

Muscat: Oman’s central bank raised OMR55 million by way of allotting treasury bills on Tuesday.
The treasury bills are for a maturity period of 28 days, from May 30, until June 27, 2018.
The average accepted price reached 99.878 for every OMR100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.860 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 1.58799 per cent and 1.58993 per cent, respectively.
The interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 2.476 per cent for the period from May 29, 2018 to June 4, 2018 while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 2.018 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.