CBO issues treasury bills worth OMR40m

Muscat: Oman’s central bank raised OMR40 million by way of allotting treasury bills on Tuesday. The treasury bills are for a maturity period of 91 days, from June 6 June until September 5, 2018.
The average accepted price reached 99.610 for every OMR100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.610 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 1.56429 per cent and 1.57041 per cent, respectively.
The interest rate on the Repo operations with Central Bank of Oman (CBO) is 2.513 per cent for the period from 5 June, 2018 to 11 June, 2018 while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 3.263 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.