Bond yields edged lower as sentiment remained buoyant after Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its fifth monetary policy review, said that it could ease monetary policy in early 2015. The yields also edged lower tailing overnight drop of US treasury yields, while uptick in brent crude prices limited further slide.
On the global front, U.S. Treasuries fell on Tuesday, with prices pressured by a Wall Street rally and institutional investors readying for a $6 billion corporate bond deal from leading retailer Amazon. Meanwhile, brent held above $70 a barrel on Wednesday, recovering slightly from losses in the prior session as a turbulent market struggled to find a price floor.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock 2023 was trading 1 basis point lower at 7.96% from its previous close of 7.97% on Tuesday.
The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps were trading 8 basis points higher at 7.18% from its previous close of 7.10% on Tuesday.
The Reserve Bank of India has announced the auction of 91 and 182 days Government of India Treasury Bills for notified amount of Rs 8,000 crore and Rs 6,000 crore respectively. The auction was conducted on December 03, 2014 using 'Multiple Price Auction' method. The allocation to the non-competitive bidders will be outside the notified amount at the discretion of the Bank.
The Reserve Bank of India will conduct overnight reverse repo variable rate auction for a notified amount of Rs 20,000 crore on December 3, 2014. The auction will be conducted between 4.00 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. as per the revised guidelines on Term Repo Auctions issued on February 13, 2014.
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