Short-term loans moved sideways amid a slightly stronger peso exchange rate on Monday, June 3, according to the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr).
The yield on the 91-day Treasury bill, which banks use in pricing their loans, declined to 5.698 percent from 5.719 percent a week ago.
The government accepted P5 billion worth of bids for the three-month IOUs, even as investors were willing to buy as much as P19.066 billion of the debt papers.
The yield on the six-month IOU however increased even after the government accepted all bids as investors pushed the rate to 5.904 percent from 5.886 percent last week.
The government sold P5 billion of the 182-day T-bills. Demand reached P11.910 billion.
The bureau also accepted the full P5 billion for the one-year debt papers, as the interest rate on the IOU rose to 6.046 percent from 6.043 percent a week earlier.
Total tenders for the 364-day T-bills reached P13 billion, or P8 billion more than the government's offer of P5 billion.
At the secondary market, the rates for the T-bills stood at 5.736 percent, 5.960 percent, and 6.065 percent, based on the Bloomberg Valuation Service Reference Rate.
The auction yields corrected slightly higher ahead of the latest local inflation data for May which is expected to be slightly faster compared to the 3.8 percent year-on-year in April 2024.