Two-year treasury bond triggers investors’ appetite

>Investors’ appetite for long-term government securities was high last week, resulting in a 19.8 per cent oversubscription of the Treasury bonds (T-bonds).

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has for the first time admitted that some Ksh105 million (about Tsh2 billion) was stolen from its hands two years ago in a Treasury bond fraud whose extent and origin it has always denied.

Corporate bond defaults alarm investors  The East African

>The two-year Treasury bond was oversubscribed by 277 per cent last week, propelled by evidence of existence of huge amounts of monies in the economy.

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