16 Sep 2011 18:35

Russian Eurobonds and spread with US Treasuries largely unchanged

MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax) - Russian Eurobonds went practically unchanged on Friday while quotations for US Treasuries also did not post clear changes. As a result, spread also remained largely the same.

By 6:00 pm Moscow time, Russia-30 had increased by only eight basis points to 118.97% with yield at 4.17%, slipping from 4.18% on September 15.

By the same time, benchmark US Treasuries had gone down by 19 basis points to 100.19% with really at 2.1%, up from 2.08% on Thursday.

Therefore, spread between Russia-30 and US Treasuries narrowed by three basis points to 207 basis points.