The amount raised through the current fiscal year’s second auction of long-term papers was significantly less than the actual target of Rs100 billion.
PIBs of three-, five-, 10-, and 20-year maturity attracted bids worth Rs90.83 billion with a total realised amount of Rs87.53 billion.
Out of the total received bids, the federal government accepted bids amounting to Rs86.78 billion with the total realised amount of Rs83.68 billion.
The cut-off yield for three-year PIBs, which raised a realised amount of Rs39.3 billion, clocked up at 12.5%.
A realised amount of over Rs21.5 billion was raised from the sale of five-year PIBs at the cut-off yield of 12.9%. The cut-off yield for 10-year papers remained 13.3% with the realised amount of Rs22.8 billion. No bids were received for the 20-year PIBs. In the last auction held on July 16, 20-year PIBs had attracted a realised amount of more than Rs2 billion at the cut-off yield of 13.1%.
According to the SBP’s auction calendar published at the start of the fiscal year, the government was to raise Rs300 billion through the sale of three-, five-, 10-, and 20-year PIBs during the first quarter of 2013-14.
The federal government borrowed more than Rs56.1 billion through PIBs in the first auction of 2014-15. Like the latest auction, the amount raised during the first auction was significantly less than the actual target of Rs100 billion.
The government has recently shifted the focus of its debt profile away from short-term treasury bills and towards long-term PIBs mainly to minimise rollover and refinancing risks. However, analysts believe the shift in its borrowing patterns has increased the cost of money for the government, as the cut-off yields on long-term papers are higher than treasury bills of shorter tenors.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 13th, 2014.
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This is what's called selling the future of our children. The 12%-13% is enormously higher than the low interest rates internationally. But then who wants to invest in Pakistan at the market rates? So this govt will sell off the nation's future at enormous rates, because they know they will not be around in 5, 10, 15 years to pay this debt. They just want the money now at any cost to satisfy their corruption. The debt is increasing exponentially, and the future of our children is getting darker at the same rate. Pretty soon we'll be back as a failed state, just as we were in 1999 - incidentally the last time Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister.
His-highness Nawaz will soon sell this country, by the on going borrowings.