November 23 (SeeNews) - Romania on Monday sold 276.3 million lei ($96.6 million/64.5 million euro) in one-year Treasury bills out of an offer of 1.0 billion lei, as yields remained flat, the country's central bank, BNR, said.
The average yield was 10.0%, the BNR, which sells government securities on behalf of the Finance Ministry, said in a statement.
Bids were placed for 1.6 billion lei worth of T-bills in Monday's auction. The average accepted price was equal to 90.8191% of par.
The Finance Ministry has said it plans to issue 6.0 billion lei worth of government securities in November.
Romania has sold 52.71 billion lei in government debt paper so far this year. It sold government securities worth nearly 12 billion lei last year, up from 8.7 billion lei in 2007.
The country, which joined the European Union in 2007, liberalised its capital market in 2006, giving foreign nationals free access to its government securities.
(1 euro = 4.2822 Romanian lei)