20 July 2021, Tuesday, 17:59 163

Finance Ministry Places Government Bonds For UAH 7.5 Billion And EUR 8 Million

Редактор: Tetiana Herasimova

On July 20, the Ministry of Finance placed government domestic loan bonds for UAH 7.5 billion and EUR 8 million.

This Ministry of Finance has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The Ministry of Finance offered investors five issues of securities in national currency and one issue in foreign currency.

The maturity of hryvnia-denominated government bonds is one year, one and a half years, two years, three years and five years.

The euro-denominated government bonds have a maturity period of one year.

The state budget attracted UAH 7.5 billion from the placement of government securities in national currency.

The greatest demand was concentrated on two-year securities, from the placement of which UAH 5.4 billion was attracted to the state budget.

The weighted average rates on government bonds remained unchanged.

The weighted average yield of one-year government bonds was 10.99%, 1.5-year-olds - 11.30%, two-year-olds - 12.09%, three-year olds - 12.30%, five-year-olds - 12.59%.

In turn, EUR 8 million was raised from the placement of government bonds denominated in foreign currency.

The weighted average rate of return on euror-denominated government bonds was 2.50%.

As a result of the auctions, the state budget raised the equivalent of UAH 7.754 billion.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in 2020, the Finance Ministry attracted UAH 258.8 billion, USD 3.9 billion and EUR 845 million from the placement of government domestic loan bonds.

In 2019, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine attracted UAH 227.6 billion, USD 4.3 billion, and EUR 387 million from the placement of government domestic loan bonds.