Egypt central bank cancels auctions of 3-year and 5-year bonds

Reuters, Monday 2 Jan 2012

Central bank offers no explanation for stopping the bond auctions worth billions of Egyptian pounds

Egypt's central bank cancelled three-year and five-year re-opened bond auctions worth LE 5 billion ($829 million), the Ministry of Finance said on Monday.

The bank auctions the instruments on behalf of the ministry, which had offered LE 3 billion of the three-year notes and LE  2 billion of the five-year.

The three-year bond had a 14 per cent coupon and the five-year bond a 14.25 per cent coupon.

The central bank gave no reason for the cancellation.

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