Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The State Treasury mobilised 22.850 trillion VND (992.1million USD) worth of Government bonds via 16 auctions on the Hanoi StockExchange in August, down 61 percent from the previous month.
Up to 76.1 percent of bidders won. Interest rates of bondsincreased on 10-year and 15-year terms, with the increase rate ranging from 0.06-0.1percent a year.
On the secondary G-bond market, the average trading volume reached8.38 trillion VND per auction, down 18.2 percent month-on-month. Transactedvolumes through repurchasing agreements (repos) accounted for 37.38 percent ofthe total trading volume.
The total outright purchases of G-bonds in the month hitover 1 billion valued at more than 110 trillion VND, down 30 percent in valuemonth-on-month.
The total volume via repos reached over 589 million bonds,or more than 65.8 trillion VND, down 14.2 percent from the previous month.
Foreign investors made outright purchases of over 2.9trillion VND, outright sales of more than 3.4 trillion VND, and repos sales ofover 601 billion VND.
As of August 31, Government bonds worth over 1.23quadrillion VND were listed on the HNX./.
VNA
