Qatar central bank sells $165mln of T-bills

DUBAI - Qatar’s central bank sold 600 million riyals ($164.84 million) of Treasury bills in an auction, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

A total of 300 million riyals worth of three-month T-bills were sold at 1.65%, 200 million riyals worth of six-month T-bills were sold at 1.65% and 100 million worth of nine-month T-bills were sold at 1.67%. ($1 = 3.6400 Qatar riyals)

(Reporting by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Alison Williams) ((aziz.elyaakoubi@thomsonreuters.com; +971552994086; Reuters Messaging: aziz.elyaakoubi.reuters.com@reuters.net))