Manama - BNA
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) announced yesterday that this week's issue of BD35 millions of Government Treasury Bills had been oversubscribed by 137%.The bills, carrying a maturity of 91 days, are issued by the CBB, on behalf of the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain.The issue date of the bills is 6th March 2013 and the maturity date is 5th June 2013.The weighted average rate of interest is 0.82%, compared with 0.85% for the previous issue on 20th February 2013.The approximate average price for the issue was 99.793% with the lowest accepted price being 99.793%.This is issue No.1432 (ISIN BH000EP36133) of Government Treasury Bills.With this, the total outstanding value of Government Treasury Bills is BD 930 million