Bond yields close the day mostly unchanged in moderate trading

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By Wealth Trust Securities

The secondary bond market yields closed the day mostly unchanged yesterday subsequent to trading within a narrow range.

Limited trades were witnessed on the maturities of 15.12.22, 2023’s (i.e. 15.01.23, 15.05.23 and 15.07.23), 2024’s (i.e. 15.06.24 and 15.09.24), 15.03.25, 15.01.26 and 15.08.27 at level of 5.85%, 5.90%, 6.04%, 6.08%, 6.75%, 6.77%, 6.95%, 7.12% and 7.36% respectively. In the secondary bill market, 4 February 2022, maturity traded at levels of 5.00%.

The total secondary market Treasury bond/bill transacted volumes for 17 February was Rs. 14.34 billion.

In the money market, overnight surplus liquidity was seen increasing to Rs. 153.67 billion yesterday, while weighted average rates on call money and repo remained mostly unchanged at 4.54% and 4.56% respectively.

Rupee remains mostly unchanged

In Forex markets, the USD/LKR rate on the more active one-week forward contracts closed the day mostly unchanged at Rs. 196.00/197.50.

The total USD/LKR traded volume for 17 February was $ 20.60 million.

(References: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Bloomberg E-Bond trading platform, Money broking companies)