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By Wealth Trust Securities
The secondary Bond market yesterday started off the new trading week slowly as market participants adopted a wait and see stance ahead of an action-packed week. This week will see the highly anticipated sixth and final Monetary Policy Announcement for the year 2025 as well as back-to-back Treasury Bill and Bond Auctions.
Yields were seen consolidating at prevailing levels, as trading followed a sideways pattern fluctuating in a narrow band. However, transaction volumes were seen at healthy levels due to the execution of several block trades.
In terms of the secondary Bond market trade summary, the 01.06.26 and 15.03.28 maturities were seen trading at the rates of 8.20% and 9.02% respectively. The 01.07.30 maturity was seen trading within the range of 9.61%-9.60%. The 15.09.34 maturity was seen trading at the rate of 10.58% and the 15.06.35 maturity was seen trading within the range of 10.70%-10.69%.
The total secondary market Treasury Bond/Bill transacted volume for 14 November was Rs. 3.56 billion.
In money markets, the net liquidity surplus was recorded at Rs. 58.50 billion yesterday. An amount of Rs. 79.20 billion was deposited at Central Bank’s SDFR (Standing Deposit Facility Rate) of 7.25%, while an amount of Rs. 20.70 billion was withdrawn from the Central Banks SLFR (Standard Lending Facility Rate) of 8.25%.
The weighted average rates on call money and repo were registered at 7.94% and 7.96% respectively.
Forex Market
In the Forex market, the USD/LKR rate on spot contracts closed the day steady at Rs. 307.80/307.90 as against Rs. 307.80/307.95 the previous day.
The total USD/LKR traded volume for 21 November was $ 75.43 million.
(References: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Bloomberg E-Bond trading platform, Money broking companies)
