Bonds yields traded higher on Monday, after the Reserve Bank of India surprised investors with the announcement of an open market sale of bonds for Rs. 10,000 crore. Some support also came with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s statement that tax revenues are expected to be higher this year while improving macroeconomic fundamentals and ongoing reforms make 8-10 per cent growth “eminently achievable”.
In the global markets US treasury prices fell on Friday (yields higher) as investors shifted funds from bonds to equities. US two-year yields were up by 4 points to 0.645 per cent while US 10-year yields were up by 7 points to 2.40 per cent. Over the week US two-year yields rose by 4 points and US 10-year yields rose by 11 points. Furthermore, Oil prices fell on Monday as Iran and six world powers were close to nailing down a nuclear deal, but high Chinese crude import figures prevented prices from tumbling further.
Back home, the yields on 10 year Government Stock was trading 8 basis points higher at 7.88% from its previous close of 7.80% on Friday.
The benchmark five year yields were trading 13 basis points higher at 8.06% from its previous close of 7.93% on Friday.
Reserve Bank will conduct sale of government securities under Open Market Operations for an aggregate amount of Rs 10,000 crore on July 14, 2015 through multi-security auction using the multiple price method. RBI has also announced the auction of 182-day Government of India Treasury Bills for notified amount of Rs 6,000 crore. The auction will be conducted on July 15, 2015 using 'Multiple Price Auction' method. Apart from this ten State Governments have offered to sell ten year securities by way of auction for an aggregate amount of Rs 7,775 crore (Face Value) on July 14, 2015.
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