Romania plans to issue 3.1 bln lei (687.2 mln euro) of debt paper in Dec

The ministry will hold two auctions of 364-day discount Treasury bills worth 500 million lei each on December 3 and December 10, it said in a statement. Another auction for 364-day discount Treasury bills worth 700 million lei will be held on December 17.

The ministry will auction 15-year benchmark T-bonds worth 100 million lei on December 6 and five-year benchmark T-notes worth 200 million lei on December 13, it added.

It will also hold two auctions for two-year benchmark T-notes worth 400 million lei each on December 6 and December 13.

One auction for three-year benchmark T-notes worth 300 million lei is scheduled for December 30.

The finance ministry has sold 50.1 billion lei and 1.1 billion euro ($1.4 billion) in government securities on the domestic market so far this year.

Romania has also sold $2.25 billion in dollar-denominated bonds on the U.S. market and 2.25 billion euro in euro-denominated bonds on international markets since the beginning of 2012.

(1 euro = 4.5109 Romanian lei)