2-month T-bills undersubscribed, floaters sold as planned at auction

Debt

Hungary's Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) sold just HUF 26.4bn twelve-month discount T-bills at rising yields, cutting its offer on undersubscription, while it sold the announced HUF 5bn of five-year floating rate bonds at auctions on Thursday.

Demand for the twelve-month T-bills, expiring on August 22, 2012, totaled HUF 30.1bn, falling short of the HUF 40bn offer. ÁKK cut the announced volume of 12-month discount T-bills to HUF 40bn at the current auction after stably offering HUF 50bn at this year's previous 12-month bill auctions.

The average yield rose 13 basis points from the previous auction on September 15 and rose 10bp from Wednesday's secondary market benchmark.

Demand for the HUF 5bn five-year floaters on offer totaled HUF 12.7bn, down from HUF 16.4bn at the previous auction of the bonds on September 1 when ÁKK raised its sales to HUF 7.5bn. The average price fell to 96.60pc of nominal value from 96.68pc at the September 1 auction.

ÁKK raised the per-auction offer of the floating-rate bonds from HUF 5bn previously in the light of healthy oversubscription for the bonds, offered four-weekly.

ADVERTISEMENT

MNB Stresses Importance of 'Conservative' Dividend Policy to... MNB

MNB Stresses Importance of 'Conservative' Dividend Policy to...

Poland Jobless Rate Unchanged in October World

Poland Jobless Rate Unchanged in October

DHL Supply Chain Relocates Domestic Operation to Páty Logistics

DHL Supply Chain Relocates Domestic Operation to Páty

More Guest Nights y.o.y. for Year-end Tourism

More Guest Nights y.o.y. for Year-end

SUPPORT THE BUDAPEST BUSINESS JOURNAL

Producing journalism that is worthy of the name is a costly business. For 27 years, the publishers, editors and reporters of the Budapest Business Journal have striven to bring you business news that works, information that you can trust, that is factual, accurate and presented without fear or favor.
Newspaper organizations across the globe have struggled to find a business model that allows them to continue to excel, without compromising their ability to perform. Most recently, some have experimented with the idea of involving their most important stakeholders, their readers.
We would like to offer that same opportunity to our readers. We would like to invite you to help us deliver the quality business journalism you require. Hit our Support the BBJ button and you can choose the how much and how often you send us your contributions.