T-Bills oversubscribed by 3bn
The Treasury Bills floated on Wednesday by the Bank of Tanzania were
oversubscribed by Tsh3 billion, indicating an increased investors’ appetite for
short term securities market.
The bank of Tanzania auction results shows that a total of Tsh141.6 billion
were tendered against an offer of Tsh138 billion. There were 221 bids but the
bank only accepted 175 bids.
The results shows that the bid worth Tsh116 billion were successful,
which indicates the bank has rejected bids amounting Tsh15 billion.
The auction results show that there has been a slight increase of
yields for T-Bills as the yield went up to the average rate of 15.72 per cent
yesterday from 15.64 per cent during the last auction on September 7 this year.
Analysts say many investors are currently interested in short term
securities as large number of bids went to one, three and six months.
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Chapisha Maoni