Monday 20 / October / 2025
Muscat: Oman’s central bank raised OMR12.5 million by way of allotting treasury bills on Monday.
The value of the allotted treasury bills include OMR3 million, for a maturity period of 28 days.
The average accepted price reached OMR99.755 for every OMR100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at OMR99.755 per OMR100. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 3.19375% and 3.20159%, respectively.
Additionally, treasury bills amounting to OMR9.5 million was also issued for a maturity period of 91 days. The average accepted price reached OMR99.059 for every OMR100, and the minimum accepted price arrived at OMR99.055 per OMR100. The average discount rate and the average yield reached 3. 77455% and 3.81041%, respectively.
The treasury bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Ministry of Finance, and they provide licensed commercial banks the opportunity to invest their surplus funds. The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) acts as the Issue Manager and provides theadded advantage of ready liquidity through discounting and repurchase facilities (Repo).
The interest rate on the Repo operations with CBO is 4.75% while the discount rate on the Treasury Bills Discounting Facility with CBO is 5.25%.
Furthermore, the treasury bills promote the local money market by creating a benchmark yield curve for short-term interest rates.
Additionally, the Government may also resort to this instrument whenever felt necessary for financing its recurrent expenditures.
