Bond yields crawl up on Friday

14 Oct 2011 Evaluate

Bond yields crawled up on Friday as investors were cautious ahead of key September inflation data due around noon, which would provide cues on the central bank's likely rate action at its policy review this month. The expectation is that the wholesale price index probably rose 9.70% in September from a year earlier, easing slightly from 9.78% in August.

The RBI, which has raised rates a dozen times since mid-March 2010, will review policy on October 25 and the possibility of another increase has been weighing on bonds.

On the global front, US Treasury debt prices rose on Thursday, with 30-year bonds snapping six days of losses, as a rally in stocks lost momentum after soft earnings from J.P. Morgan and concerns about Europe's plan to recapitalize its banks. Meanwhile, US crude futures extended the previous day's 1.6 percent decline on Friday after soft economic data from China further dampened investor optimism about demand, which was already hurt by uncertainty over Europe's debt problems and slow growth in the United States.

The yields on 10-year benchmark 7.80% - 2021 bonds 2021 bonds were trading at 8.78%, higher than 8.73% at its previous close.

The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps were trading at 7.42% from its previous close of 7.35% on Thursday.

The Government of India have announced the sale (re-issue) of three dated securities for Rs 13,000 crore on October 14, 2011, which includes (i) “7.83 percent Government Stock 2018” for a notified amount of Rs 4,000 crore (nominal), (ii) “7.80 percent Government Stock 2021” for a notified amount of Rs 6,000 crore (nominal) and (iii) “8.26 percent Government Stock 2027” for a notified amount of Rs 3,000 crore (nominal) through price based auctions. The auctions will be conducted using uniform price method. 

Meanwhile, the rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI came in line with the street expectation at 9.72% for the month of September 2011 as compared to 9.78% seen in the previous month and 8.98% during the corresponding month of the previous year. For the month of July, 2011 the final WPI for ‘All Commodities’ (Base: 2004-05=100) have been revised upward to 9.36% as compared to 9.22% reported earlier. The index for primary articles group rose by 1.3% and, the index for fuel and power group rose by 0.8%. Meanwhile the index for manufactured products group rose by 0.2% from the previous month.

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