Bond yields drift lower reinforced by central bank's liquidity assurance

05 Dec 2011 Evaluate

Bond yields drifted lower for the fourth straight session on Monday, buttressed by the central bank's vows to provide adequate liquidity. ‘We have been injecting liquidity into the market through the liquidity adjustment facility and open-market operations, and we will continue to do so as conditions warrant,’ Subir Gokarn said.

The central bank over the past two weeks has conducted two rounds of debt repurchases in order to help ease tight cash conditions and ensure government bond sales sail through smoothly. Besides this, traders are also waiting for the details of this week's scheduled debt auction for Rs 13,000 crore after market hours on Monday.

On the global front, US Treasury debt prices rose on Friday as overhanging worries about the euro zone debt crisis overshadowed an encouraging report on US jobs growth, rekindling safety bids for bonds ahead of key policy events in Europe next week. Meanwhile, US crude futures extended gains above $101 on Monday, helped by firmer equities markets, geopolitical tensions over Iran's nuclear programme and encouraging economic signs in the United States.

The yields on 10-year benchmark 8.79% - 2021 bonds 2021 bonds were trading lower by 3 basis points at 8.62% from its previous close of 8.65% on Friday.

The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps were trading down at 7.13% from its previous close of 7.15% on Friday.

Seven State Governments announce Auction of State Development Loans 2021 for Rs 4300.000 crore on December 5, 2011.

The Reserve Bank of India has announced the auction of 182 and 91 day Government of India Treasury Bills for notified amount of Rs 4,000 crore each. The auction will be conducted on December 7, 2011 using 'Multiple Price Auction' method.

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