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Tender Results issue number 140 of Government Treasury Bills worth RO 13 Million was issued6/20/2022 8:00:00 PMTender Results issue number 140 of Government Treasury Bills worth RO 13 Million was issuedA tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 140, worth RO 13 Million was issued this week.<div style="text-align:justify;"></div><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">A tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 140, worth RO 13 Million was issued this week.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">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 acts as the Issue Manager and provides the added advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo). </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">The results of the said issue are as follows: </span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">The total value of the allotted Treasury bills amounted to RO 13 million, for a maturity period of 28 days, from 22<sup>nd </sup></span><span style="font-size:13pt;">June 2022 until 20</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size:13pt;"> July 2022. The average accepted price reached 99.889 for every RO 100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at 99.875 per RO 100.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">The average discount rate and the average yield reached 1.44897% and 1.45067%, respectively.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">It may be noted that the interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 2.25% while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 2.75%.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span class="ms-rteThemeFontFace-1 ms-rteFontSize-3">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.<br></span></p>0x010100C568DB52D9D0A14D9B2FDCC96666E9F2007948130EC3DB064584E219954237AF3900075E4FF44B3F64489802BE694C5C6FB70300A9BCF8A0432A87429120A5B0A0EDBFF9

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