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By Wealth Trust Securities
The Bond auctions conducted yesterday recorded impressive outcomes as the weighted average rates on the 01.10.32 and 15.06.2035 maturities were registered well within its pre-auction rates while the total offered amount of Rs. 100 billion on both maturities were taken up at its 1st phase of the auctions.
This in turn will see a further 10% been offered on each maturity, through a direct issuance window, until close of business today. (i.e. 3.00 p.m. on 12.12.25).
The 01.10.2032 maturity recorded a weighted average rate of 10.29% against its pre-auction rate of 10.25/30 while the 15.06.2035 recorded a weighted average rate of 10.67% against a pre-auction rate of 10.65/70.
Nevertheless, the shorter tenor 01.03.2030 maturity only raised 48.5% or Rs. 20.875 billion out of the Rs. 43 billion maturity wise offered amount across both 1st and 2nd phases. It recorded a weighted average rate of 9.55%. Given in the table are the details of the auction.
In the secondary Bond market, yields decreased further yesterday due to aggressive buying interest on the maturities of 2028’s (i.e. 15.02.28, 01.05.28, 01.07.28 & 15.10.28) and 2029’s (i.e. 15.06.29, 15.09.29 and 15.10.29) to hit intraday lows of 9.10%, 9.15%, each, 9.20%, 9.45%, 9.51% and 9.50% respectively. In addition, 15.03.31 maturity traded at level of 9.95% as well.
The total secondary market Treasury Bond/Bill transacted volume for 10 December was Rs. 11.79 billion.
In money markets, the net liquidity surplus increased to Rs. 109.54 billion yesterday while the weighted average rates on overnight call money and Repo stood at 7.94% and 8.01% respectively.
Forex Market
In the Forex market, the USD/LKR rate on spot contracts to closed depreciating to 309.15/309.40 as against its previous day’s closing level of Rs. 308.80/308.90.
The total USD/LKR traded volume for 10 December 2025 was $ 36.90 million.
(References: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Bloomberg E-Bond trading platform, Money broking companies)
