{"id":109031,"date":"2025-08-25T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:28:10","slug":"government-misses-treasury-bills-target-again-rates-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109031\/","title":{"rendered":"Government misses treasury bills target again, rates increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Government-misses-treasury-bills-target-again-rates-increase-1997698?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/97259954.295.jpg\" alt=\"Interest rates for 91-day bills stand at 10.41%\" title=\"Interest rates for 91-day bills stand at 10.41%\" width=\"295\" height=\"190\" \/> <\/a>Interest rates for 91-day bills stand at 10.41%<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The government&#8217;s latest Treasury Bill auction, held on August 22, 2025, resulted in an undersubscription of GH\u00a2608.88 million for the third consecutive week, as interest rates increased slightly.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Ghana failed to meet its target of GH\u00a26.426 billion after accepting bids worth GH\u00a25.817.12 billion out of the GH\u00a25.817.12 billion received.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Mitigating-misinformation-BoG-trains-journalists-on-financial-economic-reporting-1997669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mitigating misinformation: BoG trains journalists on financial, economic reporting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 91-day bill accepted GH\u00a24.029.52 bids out of the GH\u00a24.029.52 billion tendered.<\/p>\n<p>For the 182-day bill, all bids tendered worth GH\u00a21.327.22 billion were accepted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Cedi-recovers-marginally-now-at-GH-10-90-to-the-dollar-1997692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cedi recovers marginally, now at GH\u00a210.90 to the dollar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the 364-day bill saw a total of GH\u00a2430.38 million being tendered, but only GH\u00a2397.82 million was accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Interest rates, however, have risen marginally from 10.13% for the 91-day bill last week to 10.41%.<\/p>\n<p>Yields on the 182-day bill fell from 13.08% to 12.38%, and the 364-day bill fell to 13.00%.<\/p>\n<p>The government, however, is targeting GH\u00a26.723 billion from the 91-day, 182-day, and 364-day bills in its next auction on August 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>SSD\/EB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interest rates for 91-day bills stand at 10.41% The government&#8217;s latest Treasury Bill auction, held on August 22,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-109031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}