The average yield was 4.08%, unchanged from Monday, when the ministry sold RON500 million in the reopening of the five-year bond.

The ministry plans to sell debt in local currency worth RON4.06 billion in February. Also this month, the institution hopes to raise at least EUR200 million at a five-year Eurobond sale on February 20.

So far in 2014, Romania sold RON6.29 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR278.7 million at a euro-denominated auction on the local market. The ministry also tapped international markets for $2 billion at a two-part U.S. dollar bond issue in January. (EUR1=RON4.4873)