Interest cost on Government of Ghana Treasury bills for the last three months (December 2022, January 2023 and February 2023) is estimated at ¢4.416 billion.
The government bought a total of ¢33.08 billion worth of T-bills in the last three months.
The treasury instruments were sold by government at an average yield of 35%.
In December 2022, the government secured ¢12.60 billion at an interest rate of 35.72%.
Interestingly, the government in January 2023 reduced its appetite for the short-term securities, mobilising ¢7.3 billion at a rate of 35.66%.
However, the government borrowing from T-bills significantly shot up to ¢13.1 billion in February 2023 at an interest cost of 35.50%.
Executive Director of finance firm, Dalex, Joe Jackson in a tweet said “should you be cautious in buying T-bills?”
“Government of Ghana bought 33.08 billion in the last three months. The weighted average interest rate was 35.62% and will cost a whopping ¢4.42 billion”.
The government only source of borrowing for now is the treasury market, hence the significant borrowing on the short term market.
T-bills action: Government to borrow ¢2.78bn this week
The government will this week borrow ¢2.78 billion from Treasury bills to refinance maturing bills worth ¢2.55 billion.
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