Kenya's 182-, 364-day T-bills yields rise at auction

NAIROBI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The weighted average yield on Kenya's 364-day Treasury bills rose to 10.570 percent at an undersubscribed auction on Wednesday from 10.336 percent at the previous auction on August 29, the central bank said.

At the same sale, the yield on the 182-day Treasury bills

also rose to 10.194 percent, from 9.888 percent last week.

The Central Bank of Kenya said it received bids worth a total 7.45 billion shillings for the 10 billion shillings worth of two short term papers on offer. It accepted bids worth just 3.43 billion shillings.

(Reporting By Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Richard Lough)

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