Bond yields were trading flat with negative bias, as trader’s made room for Rs 15,000 crore debt sale auctions, to be held on Friday. The movement of Bonds is expected to be range bound ahead of RBI’s mid-quarterly policy review on July 31, 2012, where India’s most aggressive central bank is expected to maintain a ‘status quo’ stance given the high rate of Inflation.
On the global front, US 10-year Treasuries inched higher in Asian trading on Thursday, on account of prevailing caution ahead of the batch of US economic data to be released later in the day for near-term direction clues. Meanwhile, brent crude hit a 7-week high to trade above $106 on Thursday fuelled by MidEast tension, while comments by the US Federal Reserve downplaying the risk of a double-dip recession in the world's biggest economy also renewed hopes of oil demand recovery.
Back home, the yields on 10-year benchmark 8.79% - 2021 inched up by 1 basis points at 8.08% from its previous close of 8.07% on Wednesday.
The benchmark five-year interest rate was trading 1 basis point higher at 6.89% from its previous close of 6.88%
The Government of India has announced the sale (re-issue) of of four dated securities for Rs15,000 crore on July 20, 2012 (i) “8.19 percent Government Stock 2020” for a notified amount of Rs 4,000 crore (nominal) through price based auction; (ii) “8.33 percent Government Stock 2026” for a notified amount of Rs 7,000 crore (nominal) through price based auction; (iii) “8.28 percent Government Stock 2032” for a notified amount of Rs 2,000 crore (nominal) through price based auction; and (iv) “8.83 percent Government Stock 2041” for a notified amount of Rs 2,000 crore (nominal) through price based auction. The auctions will be conducted using uniform price method. The auctions will be conducted by the Reserve Bank of India, Fort, Mumbai on July 20, 2012 (Friday).
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