Bond yields edged lower on Monday after fall in global crude oil prices spurred buying. The underlying momentum also remained strong on early 2015 rate cut hopes at home front. However, further gains of bonds were unlikely on the back of US yields, which edged up overnight after robust November payrolls data.
On the global front, U.S. Treasuries prices dropped on Friday after data showed U.S. employers hired more workers in November than during any month in nearly three years, boosting expectations for the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by mid-2015. Meanwhile, Oil prices fell more than a dollar at one stage on Monday after Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for Brent crude, while the market got little support from mixed Chinese trade data.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock 2023 were trading 2 basis points lower at 7.92% from its previous close of 7.94% on Friday.
The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps were trading 2 basis points lower at 7.11% from its previous close of 7.13% on Friday.
The Reserve Bank of India will conduct overnight reverse repo variable rate auction for a notified amount of Rs 10,000 crore today (December 8, 2014, Monday). 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
The Reserve Bank of India has announced the auction of 91 and 364 day Government of India Treasury Bills for notified amount of Rs 8,000 and Rs 5,000 crore respectively. The auction will be conducted on December 10, 2014 using 'Multiple Price Auction' method.
Ten State Governments have offered to sell 06/10 year securities by way of auction for an aggregate amount of Rs 8,180 crore (Face Value) for Rs 8,180 crore on December 09, 2014 .
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