Bangkok--17 Oct--SET
Thailand’s Bond Electronic Exchange (BEX) will list Bank of Thailand bonds (BOT49/03/11D) worth THB 20.00 billion (approx. USD 533.33 million) on October 17.
This issue has a 11-day maturity and will be due on October 30, 2006. It will use “CB06O30A” as its trading symbol.
This will lift the value of BEX-listed government bonds to THB 3.01 trillion (approx. USD 80.24 billion). The overall value of government and corporate bonds listed will reach THB 3.32 trillion (approx. USD 88.64 billion), of which about THB 315.34 billion are corporate issues.
Presently Bank of Thailand has listed a total of THB 815.56 billion bonds, or 27.89% of all BEX-listed bonds.
For more information on this issue, bonds in general, and domestic and overseas bonds, please visit the BEX website at www.bex.or.th . To find out about fixed income funds, please visit the website for the “Putting your money to work through mutual funds” project at www.thaimutualfund.com , or contact any investment management company.
For more information, please contact the Corporate Communications Dept.:
Ladawan Kantawong Tel: 0-2229-2036 / Kulvida Jintakawong Tel: 0-2229-2037 /
Nattaporn Boonprapa Tel: 0-2229-2049 / Watsamon Saowakhonsathien Tel: 0-2229-2797