Central Bank of Oman issues treasury bills worth $91mln

Muscat: The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) raised OMR35 million by a way of allotting treasury bills on Monday.

The value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO 30.63 million, for a maturity period of 91 days. The average accepted price reached RO 98.763 for every RO 100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at RO 98.750 per RO 100.

The average discount rate and the average yield reached 4.96136% and 5.02350%, respectively.
The value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO 4 million, for a maturity period of 182 days. The average accepted price reached RO 97.485 for every RO 100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at RO 97.485 per RO 100.

The average discount rate and the average yield reached 5.04382% and 5.17394%, respectively.
The value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO 0.37 million, for a maturity period of 364 days. The average accepted price reached RO 95.295 for every RO 100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at RO 95.295 per RO 100.

The average discount rate and the average yield reached 4.71793% and 4.95086%, respectively.

Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Ministry of Finance, and they provide licensed commercial banks the opportunity to invest their surplus funds. The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) acts as the Issue Manager and provides the added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo).

It may be noted that the interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 6.00% while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 6.50%.

Furthermore, Treasury Bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates. Additionally, the Government may also resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures.

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