The Treasury sold TRY 1.3bn of the 09.04.2014 discount bond yesterday at a compound yield of 5.75%. The sale size was close to the Reuters' poll, where the average expectation was TRY 1.2bn. There was strong interest, with a 3.7x bid-cover ratio. That said, the yield came in at higher than the expected 5.71%. Next week's auctions for 5- year and 10-year fixed coupon bonds as well as the benchmark bond and the CPI-linker will be more important. The Treasury planned to raise TRY 6.7bn from the market and TRY 4.8bn from public institutions in February against the TRY 15.2bn debt service with TRY 10.4bn being destined to the market. There will also be a TRY 1.5bn sukuk issue.
Source: bne