The Bureau of the Treasury is offering a new investment option in US dollars for Filipino savers to help meet the budget needs of the Marcos administration. The Treasury has posted a notice on its website on Monday, Sept. 25 stating that retail onshore dollar bonds (RDB) will be issued, with a...
The government sold all its short-term debt papers after interest rates dropped. On Monday, Sept. 4, the Bureau of the Treasury held a successful auction for Treasury bills (T-bills), raising P15 billion as planned. The total bids reached P47.56 billion, an oversubscription of nearly two times the...
How would you feel if the government were to borrow some of your hard-earned savings from the banks? Well, generally, banks do not take your feelings into consideration. In reality, they are allowed to utilize the savings of their depositors, which are sitting idle in their vaults, and invest them....
Benchmark yields for short-term loans jumped after the central bank raised its policy rates last week, forcing the Bureau of the Treasury to partially borrow on Monday, Feb. 20. At an auction of Treasury bills, the national government raised a total of P13.05 billion, below the P15 billion program....
The Bureau of the Treasury closed its retail bond offering ahead of schedule after demand reached more than government’s target. National Treasurer Rosalia V. De Leon announced on Wednesday, Feb. 15, that the bureau raised P283.71 billion through the sale of 5.5 year retail treasury bond...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans rose, prompting the Bureau of the Treasury to borrow less than planned. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Feb. 13, the national government raised P14.6 billion, below the P15 billion program. Total demand reached P32.2 billion The 91-day Treasury bill...
Small Filipino savers wanting to take a piece of the government’s retail Treasury bond (RTB) sale would earn higher interest rates than prevailing market rates. The Bureau of the Treasury launched on Tuesday, Feb. 7, the government’s new 5.5 year RTB, raising an initial P162.2 billion as total...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans moved sideways, but fell below secondary market rates. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Feb. 6, the national government raised P15 billion as programmed after total demand reached P37.78 billion The 91-day Treasury bill rate increased slightly to 4.186...
The Bureau of the Treasury made a full-award on Tuesday, Jan. 31, after the benchmark interest rate on debt falling due in almost 12 years settled within the secondary market levels. The interest rate of the reissued 25-year IOUs, with a remaining life of 12-years and eight-months, fetched 6.197...
Benchmark yields for short-term loans went down on the back of strong demand. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Jan. 30, the national government raised P15 billion as programmed after total demand reached P61.85 billion The 91-day Treasury bill rate declined to 4.152 percent from 4.211...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans dipped ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s policy meeting next week. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on Jan. 23, the bellwether 91-day T-bill rate declined to 4.211 percent from 4.250 percent previously. It is also lower than the...
Investors swamped the Marcos administration’s second overseas $3-billion bond sale, allowing the government to borrow at the much lower interest rates than initially estimated, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno announced Tuesday, Jan. 10, that the national...
