Romania sells planned 200 mln lei (43 mln euro) of 2027 T-notes, yield falls - table

The average accepted yield fell to 3.90% from 3.92% achieved at the last auction of government securities of the same issue held in August, the data indicated.

Demand for the T-notes, which carry an annual coupon of 5.80%, fell to 400 million lei from 470 million lei at the auction in August.

The issue will be reopened on Tuesday day when the finance ministry hopes to raise 30 million lei in a non-competitive tender.

Details on the issue follow:

Romania's finance ministry plans to auction 3.9 billion lei worth of government securities and to sell an additional 405 million lei in non-competitive offers in September.

In August, the finance ministry sold 3.28 billion lei worth of domestic debt paper and an additional 345 million lei in non-competitive offers, slightly below target.

So far this year, the finance ministry has sold some 35.2 billion lei and 340 million euro worth of government bills and bonds and has tapped foreign markets for 1.75 billion euro of 2027 and 2035 Eurobonds.

In June, the ministry said it plans to sell 7.5 billion euro worth of eurobonds on the international markets in the following two years.

The ministry also plans to sell about 2.5-3.0 billion euro worth of Eurobonds on the international markets and some 48-50 billion lei worth of leu-denominated domestic debt this year.

(1 euro=4.5978 lei)