The ministry sold a planned RON800 million in six-month treasury bills at an average yield of 2.73% a year, up from 2% a year at the latest similar auction in January.
Additionally, the ministry raised RON500 million in a reopening of its 10-year bond due June 2021, at an average yield of 4.94% a year. Last month, the ministry reopened the bond to raise RON535 million at 5.29% a year.
The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON4.33 billion in April, up from RON2.84 billion raised a month earlier. The last auction of the month is scheduled for Friday, when the ministry seeks to attract RON75 million in a non-competitive bond tender.
So far in 2014, Romania sold RON13.9 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR678.7 million at three euro-denominated auctions on the local market. The ministry also tapped international markets for $2 billion at a two-part U.S. dollar bond issue in January, and EUR1.25 billion in a ten-year Eurobond sale last week. (EUR1=RON4.4625)