Banks offered RON1.82 billion at today’s tender, central bank data showed.
At the previous similar tender July 25, the ministry sold RON300 million in five-year paper at an average yield of 4.72% a year.
The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON1.98 billion in August, above the RON1.75 billion raised a month earlier.
So far in 2013, Romania sold RON29.46 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR1.41 billion at three euro-denominated auctions on the local market. The ministry also tapped international markets for $1.5 billion at a US dollar-bond sale in February. (EUR1=RON4.425)