АВСТРАЛИЯ ВЫПУСТИЛА КРАТКОСРОЧНЫЕ ТРЕЖЕРЯ С ОТРИЦАТЕЛЬНОЙ ДОХОДНОСТЬЮ - ВПЕРВЫЕ В ИСТОРИИ - FT
Australia has sold short term treasury bills at a negative yield for the first time in its history, joining Japan and a raft of European nations that are being paid to borrow money from investors.
Investors snapped up A$1.5bn ($1.1bn) of three-month notes on Thursday at an average yield of 0.01 per cent, with some buyers at the auction receiving a yield of minus 0.1 per cent. Australian yields have been hovering close to zero since the central bank slashed its main interest rate to 0.1 per cent earlier this year to support the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic.