Monday, August 13, 2007

HCMC to sell 500 bln dong in urban bonds

An investment fund in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City will raise a combined 500 billion dong ($31 million) by auctioning three types of urban bonds later this week, the Hanoi's stock exchange said on Monday.

The Ho Chi Minh City Investment Fund for Urban Development Project told the exchange that it would auction on Thursday a 150 billion-dong bond with maturity on Aug. 29, 2012 and a 200 billion-dong bond for maturity on Aug. 20, 2017.

A third bond to be auctioned on the same day would raise 150 billion dong for maturity on Aug. 20, 2022.

In March, Moody's upgraded the outlook for both Vietnam's foreign currency bonds and local currency bonds to positive from stable. It assigned a Ba3 rating for the country's dong debts.

Source: Reuters

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