MADRID, 5 luglio (Reuters) - Spain's Treasury announced the
following results at Thursday's bond auction where it
sold 3.0 billion euros ($3.75 billion) of bonds.
It sold 1.2 billion euros worth of bonds maturing in July
30, 2015 with a 4.0 percent coupon and 1.0 billion euros worth
of bonds maturing in Oct. 31, 2016, with a 4.25 percent coupon.
The Treasury also sold 747 million euros of a bond maturing
Jan. 31, 2022, with a 5.85 percent coupon.
The Treasury had expected to sell between 2 billion and 3
billion euros of the debt.
Following are the details of the sale in millions of euros:
July 2015 bond LATEST PREVIOUS
AUCTION DATE July 5, 2012 June 21, 2012
ISSUE MATURITY July 30, 2015 July 30, 2015
COUPON (PCT) 4.0 4.0
HIGHEST YIELD (PCT) 5.197 5.510
AVERAGE YIELD (PCT) 5.086 5.457
AVERAGE PRICE 96.998 95.951
TOTAL BIDS (MLN) 2,829 2,915
ALLOTTED (MLN) 1,239 918
BID/COVER RATIO 2.3 3.2
Oct 2016 bond LATEST PREVIOUS
AUCTION DATE July 5, 2012 June 7, 2012
ISSUE MATURITY Oct 31, 2016 Oct 31, 2016
COUPON (PCT) 4.25 4.25
HIGHEST YIELD (PCT) 5.621 5.443
AVERAGE YIELD (PCT) 5.536 5.353
AVERAGE PRICE 95.158 95.764
TOTAL BIDS (MLN) 2,594 2,114
ALLOTTED (MLN) 1,015 825
BID/COVER RATIO 2.6 2.6
Jan 2022 bond LATEST PREVIOUS
AUCTION DATE July 5, 2012 June 7, 2012
ISSUE MATURITY Jan 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022
COUPON (PCT) 5.85 5.85
HIGHEST YIELD (PCT) 6.505 6.121
AVERAGE YIELD (PCT) 6.430 6.044
AVERAGE PRICE 95.904 98.564
TOTAL BIDS (MLN) 2,377 2,011
ALLOTTED (MLN) 747 611
BID/COVER RATIO 3.2 3.3
($1 = 0.7994 euros)