Illustrative photo (Photo: Internet)Hanoi(VNA) - The Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) raised nearly 19.36 trillion VND (849million USD) through 12 Government bonds auctions in January, up 63.3 percentover the previous month.
All the bonds wereissued by the State Treasury with a yielding rate of 97.3 percent.
The coupon rates offive-year term bonds were 4.30 percent per year; seven-year term bonds, 4.35percent per annum; and 10-year term bonds from 4.38 to 5.15 percent per annum.The rates for 15-year term bonds were 4.5-5.2 percent per annum, 20-year termbonds at 5.2 percent per year and 30-year term bonds at 5.4 percent per annum.
Compared to late2017, the rates were lower for all terms ranging from 0.22-0.82 percent.
On the secondarymarket, the total volume of Government bonds sold by the outright methodreached more than 1.06 billion, worth 118 trillion VND, up 4.3 percent in valueover December 2017.
Trading volumethrough repurchase agreements (repos) was 1.15 billion bonds, worth over 118trillion VND, a decrease of 2.6 percent in value compared with the previousmonth.
Foreign investorsalso made outright purchases of more than 8.9 trillion VND and outright saletransactions of 8.1 trillion VND. They made repo buys of over 220 billion VNDand repo sales of over 247 billion VND in the month. - VNA
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