Bond yields were trading tad lower on Tuesday as traders view debt as oversold after two days of price fall. While some dealer were eyeing Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan's meeting with market participants, which comes ahead of the RBI policy review on April 1, 2014. New borrowings will hit the market from 1st week of April so traders will avoid taking big positions. Meanwhile, Yields on state development loans, or SDLs, are falling as investors from pension funds to life insurers scramble to lap up these bonds in the absence of central government securities.
On the global front, US Treasuries prices fell on Monday after Sunday's referendum in Crimea passed without major violence, reducing safety demand for US government bonds, and before the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. Meanwhile, Brent edged higher above $106 a barrel on Tuesday, with bargain-hunting kicking in after the benchmark fell nearly $2 in the previous session as there seemed little likelihood of the Ukraine crisis interrupting Russian oil supplies.
The yields on new 10 year Government Stock 2023 were trading 1 basis point lower 8.78% from its previous close of 8.79% on Friday.
The benchmark five-year interest rate swaps steady at 8.45%, while the one-year rates were trading 1 basis point lower at 8.63% from its previous close of 8.64% on Friday.
As announced on February 18, 2014, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to conduct a 21 -day term repo variable rate auction for a notified amount of Rs 50,000 crore on March 14, 2014 (Friday). The reversal will be on April 4, 2014 (Friday). The auction will be conducted as per the revised guidelines issued on February 13, 2014. There will be no term repo auction on March 18, 2014 when the existing 28-day term repo of Rs 30,004 crore matures.
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