The latest Treasury bills issued by the Government of Jamaica saw a big jump in interest rates on two instruments, with the 91 day T-bill jumping by 57 percent compared to the rate in March, at the same time, the 182 days instrument rose by 36 percent.
The April auction attracted total bids of $3.6 billion for the $2.2 billion offered for three different maturity dates.
The T-bills for the 91 days ended with an average yield of just under 1.94 percent, up nearly 57 percent from 1.235 percent at the March 12 auction. The 182 days note jumped 36 percent to just under 2.071 percent and the 273 days note ended at 2.469 percent for the $800 million on offer.
The March auction had just two issues amounting to $1.4 billion, but it attracted $7.4 billion in bids while the February issues pulled in $6 billion for the $2.2 billion offered in three issues, resulting in the average yields were slightly below the latest issues in April. The rates for February ended at 1.52831 percent, 1.96323 percent and 2.41164 percent, respectively.
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The 182 days note that fell to 7.14 percent at the December auction, the lowest level since June 201, returned a lower rate in the January auction at 6.99 percent.
The pace at which the 182 days treasury rates are falling, have slowed from 0.34 percent dip in November to 0.15 percent at the latest issue. With the latest announcement by Bank of Jamaica on projection for inflation for 2015 being in the range of 3-5 percent there will be lots of room for the treasury rates to decline sharply in the months ahead.
The latest auction, dated January 14, 2015, for the 28 days instrument, ended with an average rate of 6.29528 percent. The rate fell from the average rate of 6.38 percent at the December auction and from 6.71 percent in November and 6.826 percent in October, as $1.1 billion up from $686 million in December, chased the $400 million on offer.Investors’ demand for the 91 days Treasury bills, climbed to $706 million, from $531 million in December, but is still well below the $1.042 billion that chased the November auction offering. Demand for the longer-term 182 days instrument, was down to $717 million from $925 million for the December auction. The amounts available were $400 million for each for the Treasury bills on offer.
The Treasury bill for the 91 days period, Friday, January 23 to mature on Friday, April 24, attracted an average yield of 6.8817 percent down from 6.956 percent in December. November’s rate was 7.052 percent, 7.336 percent in October and 7.46952 percent, at the September auction. At the August auction the average rate out turn was 7.46767 percent. The yield for July was an average of 7.63643 percent, for the June issue 7.65893 percent and 8.2 percent in May, for the Treasury bill of same duration.
The offer of 182 days duration, dated December 2014, maturing on June 19, 2015, resulted in an average interest rate yield of 7.14 percent, down from 7.387 percent at the November’s auction. At the October auction the average rate declined to 7.73187 percent from 7.99887 percent, at the September auction, 8.11578 percent, in August, 8.21982 percent at the July’s auction and 8.36502 percent for the June issue, of the same duration. At the May auction, the rate came out at 8.932 percent.