HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam's State Treasury raised 6.05 trillion dong (US$229 million) in a weekly government bond auction this week, down from US$350 million raised last week.
The uptake was also lower, with 43% of the bonds on offer sold, compared with 66% last week, according to a Hanoi Stock Exchange filing.
The auction took total government bond sales so far in 2025 to 293 trillion dong, according to exchange data, less than 60% of the government's target of 500 trillion dong this year.
Proceeds from bond sales are mainly used to fund Vietnam's public investments, one of the key drivers of economic growth.
At Wednesday's auction, the treasury sold 6.05 trillion dong out of the 9 trillion dong of 10-year bonds on offer at a coupon of 3.86%.
It failed to offload any of the total of 5 trillion dong of 5-, 15- and 30-year bonds on offer.
On the corporate side, Vietnamese companies have raised 506 trillion dong via bonds this year up to November 21, according to bond market association data.
The value of corporate bonds maturing in the remainder of 2025 is 29.4 trillion dong, of which 35% is in the real estate sector and 27.5% in the banking sector, the data showed. -- Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by John Mair - Reuters
