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Vietnam bank to auction 1.2 trillion dong bonds on Nov 18

Published November 15, 2011 Updated November 15, 2011 04:41am

The bank will sell 500 billion dong of three-year bonds and 700 billion dong of five-year bonds, the exchange said in a statement.

In the previous auction on Nov. 4, the lender failed for the third time in a row to sell any bonds because there were no bids.

The last time the bank was successful in selling a bond was on Sept. 16 when it sold 25 billion dong of five-year debt at a yield of 12 percent, the exchange has said.

The bank raised 9.3 trillion dong ($442.86 million) through debt in the first 10 months of this year, up sharply from 350 billion dong in the same period in 2010, the exchange's data showed.

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