The ministry sold a planned RON500 million in one-year treasury bills at an average yield of 5.51% a year, down from 5.85% a year at the previous tender.
Additionally, the ministry raised RON737 million at a three-year bond sale, higher compared with the RON500 million targeted. The average yield fell to 5.69% a year, from 5.95% a year in January.
The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON3.7 billion in February, well below the RON11.4 billion raised a month earlier.
So far in 2013, the ministry sold RON12.6 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR502.5 million at a three-year euro-denominated auction on the local market. (EUR1=RON4.3667)