CBO issues treasury bills worth OMR16 million

Muscat: Oman’s central bank raised OMR16 million by way of allotting treasury bills on Tuesday. The treasury bills are for a maturity period of 28 days, from Wednesday until January 29, 2020.
The average accepted price reached 99.865 for every OMR100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.865 per OMR100. Whereas the average discount rate and the average yield reached 1.75982 per cent and 1.76220 per cent, respectively.
The interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 2.281 per cent for the period from December 30, 2019 to January 6, 2020 while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 3.031 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.