Egypt central bank cancels auction of 2 and 3-year bonds

Reuters, Monday 19 Sep 2011

Egypt's central bank cancelled a two-year and three-year re-opened bond auction worth LE4 billion (US$671 million) in total, it said on Monday.

The bank auctions the instruments on behalf of Egypt's Finance Ministry, which had offered LE2 billion of each.

The two-year bond had a 13.1 per cent coupon. The three-year bond had a 13.35 per cent coupon.

The central bank gave no reason for the cancellation.

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