Government Treasury Bills issue 1662 oversubscribed

Manama : The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) today announced that this week’s BD 70 million issue of Government Treasury Bills has been oversubscribed by 122%.

The bills, carrying a maturity of 91 days, are issued by the CBB, on behalf of the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The issue date of the bills is 2nd August 2017 and the maturity date is 1st November 2017.

The weighted average rate of interest is 2.31%, compared to 2.30% for the previous issue on 26th July 2017.

The approximate average price for the issue was 99.419% with the lowest accepted price being 99.398%.

This is issue No. 1662 (ISIN BH0004445530) of Government Treasury Bills. With this, the total outstanding value of Government Treasury Bills is BD 2.010 billion.