Standoff as investors seek higher returns from CBK bond sales

The Central Bank of Kenya, Nairobi.

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Bond buyers pushed back against the Central Bank of Kenya’s (CBK) efforts to lower domestic interest rates with an undersubscription of the reopened 10- and 20-year bonds that closed on Wednesday. 

Investors offered the government Sh22.64 billion against a target of Sh30 billion, of which the CBK took up Sh19.28 billion as it left bids deemed expensive on the table. 

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