Friday 13 June 2014

Nigeria raises $521 mln at bond sale, yields mixed

Nigeria sold a combined 85.17 billion naira ($521.33 million) in three-year and 10-year bonds to mostly local pension funds and some offshore investors, the Debt Management Office (DMO) said on Thursday.

DMO said it sold 30 billion naira worth of 3-year bonds at an 11.35 per cent yield, up from the 11.09 percent the same tenor fetched at an auction last month.

A total of 50 billion naira was sold in the 10-year paper at 12.24 percent, down from 12.54 per cent at the previous auction. In addition, the DMO issued 5.17 billion naira in 10-year bonds on a non-competitive basis to the central bank.

Nigeria had initially offered to sell 35 billion naira each in the 3-year and 10-year papers.

Demand at the auction stood at 204.53 billion naira, lower than 239.03 billion naira received at last month's auction. ($1 = 163.3700 Nigerian naira) (Reporting by Oludare Mayowa; Editing by Chijioke Ohuocha and Susan Fenton)

Source Reuters

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