The benchmark interest rate on debt falling due in almost seven-years rose at an auction of the government IOUs at the Bureau of the Treasury on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
The interest rate of the seven-year Treasury bonds, with a remaining life of six-years and eight months, fetched 6.588 percent.
The yield was slightly higher than the 6.454 percent fetched in the secondary market, based on the PHP Bloomberg Valuation (BVAL) Service Reference Rates published on the Philippine Dealing System’s website.
Investors were willing to buy as much as P54.844 billion of the reissued seven-year T-bonds, more than the government's offer of P35 billion.
“Interest rates were aligned with secondary levels,” National Treasurer Rosalia V. De Leon told reporters after the auction.