{"id":86859,"date":"2015-04-18T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T11:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/04\/18\/242747\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:17:34","slug":"average-yield-on-armenian-eurobonds-in-february-2015-rose-to-6-63-from-6-33-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/04\/18\/86859\/","title":{"rendered":"Average yield on Armenian Eurobonds in February 2015 rose to 6.63% from 6.33% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 18. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> The average yield on Armenian Eurobonds in February 2015 rose to 6.63% from 6.33% in January, according to the monthly bulletin of the Central Bank of Armenia for February. The yield in February 2014 was 5.76%, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in the yield is attributed to instability of the geopolitical situation in the region and the strengthening USD across the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Central Bank of Armenia, $24.2 million worth transactions were made with Armenian Eurobonds in February 2015 in the secondary market, down from $32.3 million in January.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia first issued $700 million worth dollar-denominated bonds in September 2013 at the yield of 6.25 percent. The bulk of $700 million was used to repay a $500 million Russian loan ten years ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia raised $487.84 million from the second issue of 10-year dollar bond on March 19 paying a yield of 7.5%. International law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen &amp; Hamilton LLC was hired by the Armenian government to act as an international consultant for the issue, while Deutsche Bank, HSBC Bank and JP Morgan acted as underwriters.<\/p>\n<p>The government said it would use the Eurobond proceeds to buy back up to $200 million of the previous dollar bond issue.-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average yield on Armenian Eurobonds in February 2015 rose to 6.63% from 6.33% in January, according to the monthly bulletin of the Central Bank of Armenia for February. The yield in February 2014 was 5.76%, it said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12147,9216],"tags":[15837,15402,13010],"class_list":{"0":"post-86859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bonds-am-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-average-2","11":"tag-eurobonds"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}