2014News

Government bonds index published by BVRD

The Dominican Republic Securities Exchange (BVRD) has started publishing the Government Bond Index as of Friday, 5 December 2014. BVRD general manager Felipe Amador said that the index serves as a market reference on the prices and yields of government bonds that after being issued in the primary market are renegotiated in the secondary market. The bonds have been issued either by the Ministry of Hacienda or the Central Bank.

As reported, as of November 2014, in the Centralized Deposit of Values (Cevaldom), bonds for RD$318 billion were issued by the Central Bank and another RD$133.4 billion by the Ministry of Hacienda. Cevaldom accounts for 95.8% of all bonds issued by the government.

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