Bond yields trade unchanged post weekly food inflation climbs at 8.04%

04 Aug 2011 Evaluate

Pre weekly Inflation Data:

Bond yields were trading range bound on Thursday as trader’s preferred staying on the bay ahead of the Rs 12,000 crore debt sale tomorrow and also ahead of the food inflation data to be released later in the day for further cues.

On the global front, longer-dated U.S. Treasury debt prices were steady to higher on Wednesday as fears; the economy could be slipping back into recession spurred investors to seek out the safety of U.S. government debt. Meanwhile, U.S. crude rebounded from a five-week low on Thursday, tracking a modest bounce in Asian stock markets before key U.S. employment reports expected to shed further light on whether a recovery in the world's largest economy is faltering.

The yields on 10-year benchmark 7.80% - 2021 was trading lower at 8.43% from Wednesday's 8.42%.

The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps were trading tad lower at 7.39% from its previous close of 7.40% on Wednesday.

The Government of India have announced the sale of three dated securities for Rs 12,000 crore on August 5, 2011, which is inclusive of (i) “8.07 percent Government Stock 2017” for a notified amount of Rs 4,000 crore (nominal), (ii) “8.13 percent Government Stock 2022” for a notified amount of Rs 5,000 crore (nominal) and (iii) “8.28 percent Government Stock 2027” for a notified amount of Rs 3,000 crore (nominal) through price based auctions.

Post weekly Inflation Data:

India’s food inflation after cooling off to a 20 month low in the previous week has again surged as the Food Articles group rose 8.04% in the week ended July 23 compared to 7.33% in the previous week just after RBI stunned the markets last week by raising interest rates by 50 basis points, showing unexpected resolve in fighting persistently high inflation that had quickened to 9.44% in June.

The index for primary articles group which has the highest weightage of 20.12% in WPI declined by 0.6% for the week at 196.9 (Provisional) from 198.0 in the previous week. The annual rate of inflation, calculated on point to point basis, stood at 10.99 percent (Provisional) for the week ended June 23, 2011 as compared to 10.49 percent for the previous week ended July 16, 2011. 

While, the index and annual rate of inflation on point to point basis for Fuel & Power group which occupies 14.91% weight age in WPI remained unchanged at their previous week’s level of 165.6 (Provisional) and 12.12 percent (Provisional) for the previous week.

 The yields on 10-year benchmark 7.80% - 2021 was trading steady at Wednesday's close of 8.42%.

The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps were trading tad higher at 7.41% from its previous close of 7.40% on Wednesday.

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