Taiwan Power Co, the island's largest issuer of corporate bonds, sold T$15.7 billion ($490 million) of secured bonds, it said on Friday, with the yields higher than forecast due to wariness over recent central bank moves. The central bank has been trying to curb investors from speculating in the Taiwan dollar and bonds, dampening market sentiment and pressuring prices in the secondary debt market, dealers said.
State-owned Taiwan Power, or Taipower, sold three-year bonds at 0.85 percent, five-year bonds at 1.26 percent, seven-year bonds at 1.55 percent and 10-year bonds at 1.78 percent, which beat expectations, indicating that prices were low.
Yields of Taiwan's benchmark 10-year bonds ended 9.90 basis points higher at 1.4100 percent, while five-year bonds closed 11.27 basis points up at 0.8780 percent. In its last auction in September, Taipower sold three-year bonds at 0.85 percent, five-year bonds at 1.34 percent and 10-year bond bonds at 1.95 percent.
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