20 Aug 2015 18:31

Russian Eurobond prices consolidate on Thursday, long issues decline

MOSCOW. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Russian Eurobonds did not see major changes on Thursday and US Treasuries went up slightly, moderately widening the spread between the two benchmark issues.

Russia-30 was up 2 basis points by 5:40 p.m. Moscow time to 117.11%, yielding 3.6% p.a., down 1 b.p. from previous closing.

Ten-year US Treasuries were up 37 b.p. at 99.24%, yielding 2.08% p.a., 5 b.p. lower.

Spread in yield between Russia-30 and UST10 widened 4 b.p. to 152 b.p.