A monthly bond auction by the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) was oversubscribed 3.7 times.
The auction of €600 million worth of 5 per cent Treasury 2013 bonds was confined to a number of primary dealers in Dublin, London and Paris. NTMA holds a bond auction on the third Thursday of every month to raise money for the exchequer.
A spokesman for NTMA said the average yield paid on the bonds was 4.21 per cent, or about one-and-a-half basis points above the rate at which Germany is borrowing 10-year money.
The highest accepted price was €106.13, yielding 4.211 perc ent while the lowest accepted price was €106.09 yielding 4.215 per cent, NTMA said.
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Some 92 per cent of bids were filled at the lowest accepted price.