Banks offered RON1.85 billion at today’s tender, central bank data showed.
At the previous similar tender October 3, the ministry sold RON1 billion in five-year paper at an average yield of 4.37% a year.
The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON4.75 billion in October, from RON3.82 billion in the previous month.
So far in 2013, Romania sold RON38.56 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR1.57 billion at four euro-denominated auctions on the local market. The ministry also tapped international markets for $1.5 billion at a US dollar-bond auction in February and raised another EUR1.5 billion at a Eurobond sale in September. (EUR1=RON4.4511)