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The yield on the 91-day bills rose to 12.438 percent from 12.414 percent at last week's auction. The bank sold only 900 million Egyptian pounds ($147.47 million) of the bills compared to the 1 billion pounds it had offered.
The average yield on 273-day T-bills decreased to 13.122 percent from 13.973 percent at an auction two weeks ago, with the central bank selling 3 billion pounds of the bills, the same amount it had sought to sell.
The central bank sells the T-bills on behalf of the finance ministry.