Market Players Anticipate Inflows of N67.7b in Matured T-Bills

By Dipo Olowookere

As transactions resume today, market players are anticipating inflows worth N67.68 billion in matured treasury bills this week.

The N67.68 billion maturing bills this week is lower than N275.21 billion inflow from matured T-bills last week, which moderated the impact of the outflow.

Business Post reports that with the expected outflow to fund Dollar purchases this week, and also the possibility of further liquidity mop up by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), there might be scarcity of funds in the market, which would further increase the cost of funds.

There might also be moderation in interbank lending rates.

Last week, the apex bank auctioned T-bills worth N252.88 billion viz: 91-day bills worth N6 billion, 182-day bills worth N69.5 billion and N364-day bills worth N177.2 billion.

Their respectively stop rates fell to 12 percent from 12.10 percent, 13.65 percent from 13.75 percent and 13.70 percent from 13.79 percent.

Also, T-Bills worth 275.64 billion were sold via Open Market Operations (OMO). The outflows were partly offset by inflows worth N275.21 billion in matured treasury bills.

Consequently, the Nigerian NIBOR for overnight and 6 months tenor buckets rose to 12.17 percent from 5.92 percent and 16.74 percent from 16.31 percent respectively.

On the other hand, the Nigerian NIBOR for 1 month and 3 months tenor buckets fell w-o-w to 14.39 percent from 14.41 percent.

Elsewhere, NIITY fell for all maturities tracked amid buy pressure: yields on the 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months maturities increased to 12.40 percent from 14.01 percent, 13.48 percent from 14.80 percent, 14.31 percent from 15.08 percent and 15.45 percent from 15.52 percent respectively.