Public Debt Management Agency

Bond yields pointing to 10-year issue

Greek bond yields eased significantly on Tuesday, in line with other eurozone peripheral bonds, remaining on the positive course set in mid-January, right after the issue of the five-year note. This is paving the way for the Public Debt Management Agency to implement the plan to issue a benchmark 10-year bond next month.

T-bill yield drops to 0.5 pct in latest auction

Greece has auctioned 13-week treasury bills of a total value of 812.5 million euros, the country's Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced on Wednesday.

The bills were sold at a 0.5 percent yield, down from 0.67 percent in the last similar auction on January 9 this year, according to an e-mailed PDMA press statement.

New T-bill auction next Wednesday

Greece's Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced on Friday that next Wednesday, February 6, it will auction 13-week treasury bills maturing on May 10 and amounting to 625 million euros.

The settlement date will be February 8.

Only primary dealers will be allowed to participate, according to their operation regulations, the PDMA said.

Successful high-yield bond issue

In a very carefully planned bond issue, the first after the end of the bailout programs in August 2018, the Greek state drew 2.5 billion euros on Tuesday, making the most of the currently favorable market conditions.

The new bond has a five-year maturity, expiring on April 2, 2024, a yield of 3.6 percent and a coupon of 3.45 percent, with bids exceeding 10 billion euros.

Post-bailout Greece readies for return to bond market

Greece has announced plans to issue a five-year bond, in what be the country's first market test since the end of its international bailout last August.

The country's Public Debt Management Agency on Monday named BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs International Bank, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and SG CIB as joint lead managers for the issue.

Greece raises 1.63 bln in year's first T-bill auction

Greece raised 1.625 billion euros on Wednesday, in the first treasury bills auction conducted in 2019, the country's Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced.

The six-month treasury bills were sold at 0.9 percent yield, unchanged from the previous similar auction held on December 5, 2018, according to the emailed PDMA press release.

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