The Ministry of Finance issued Treasury bonds in local currency for an amount equivalent to $38 million, receiving total demand of $90 million.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance:
September 25, 2018. The results of the sale of Treasury Bonds of the Republic of Guatemala represented by Account Annotation (Public Bidding); and of Representative Physical Certificates and Representative Certificates Electronically Registered in Custody of Banco de Guatemala (Auction and Public Bidding) held on September 25, 2018, with a total demand of Q.694.95 million and US $30 million, are the following:
At the end of the second quarter of the year, the country reported that the total external debt amounted to $11.728 billion, an amount that exceeds by 1.9% what was recorded at the end of 2017.
Nicaragua's total external debt totaled 11.728 billion dollars, of which 6.0832 billion corresponds to the private sector and 5.6448 billion to the public sector.Total external debt increased by 175.7 million dollars (1.5%), compared to the first quarter of 2018, reported the Central Bank of Nicaragua.
The increase in domestic debt with terms of less than one year and the growing rise in interest rates are some of the threats that Costa Rica's public finances continue to face.
According to the 2017 Annual Report by the General Comptroller of the Republic, between 2016 and 2017 the percentage of domestic debt with a term of less than one year increased from 15% to 18%, the variable rate rose from 12% to 20%, and the interest rate in dollars grew from 19% to 24%.
Between July 2017 and the same month this year, the country reported a 5.4% increase in the balance of its total external debt, rising from $8.229 billion to $8.674 billion in July.
The Central Bank of Honduras reports that at the end of July 2018, the balance of total external debt (public and private) was US $8.6739 billion, evidencing an increase of US $101.1 million with respect to the amount registered up to December 2017 (US $8.5728 billion), mainly explained by the net use (disbursements minus amortizations) of US $138.3 million, which is partially offset by a favorable exchange variation of US $37.2 million.
In the first six months of 2018, the country's public debt grew by 5%, going from $6.487 billion at the end of 2017 to $6.828 billion at the end of June.
Of the total public debt, 83% corresponded to public sector debt with external creditors (US $5.6448 billion) and the remaining 17% to debt with the Central Government and Central Bank of Nicaragua with the national private sector (US $1.1835 billion).
The Ministry of Finance has issued Treasury bonds in local currency for an amount equivalent to $48 million, receiving total demand of $130 million.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance:
August 21, 2018.The results of the sale of Treasury Bonds of the Republic of Guatemala represented by Account Annotation (Public Bidding); and of Representative Physical Certificates and Representative Certificates Electronically Registered in Custody of Banco deGuatemala (Auction and Public Bidding) held on August 21, 2018, with a total demand of Q.941.70 million and US $ 17.0 million, were the following:
In the first semester of this year, the Panamanian government paid $30 million more in interest payments on the public debt than the amount paid in the same period last year.
According to official figures between the first six months of 2018 and the same period in 2017, the costs of the debt increased by 6%, rising from $537 million to $567 million.
The Ministry of Finance in Costa Rica has announced that between today and August 3 it will try to raise, through means of a direct issue in the local stock market, about $879 million.
Authorities reported that two issues of securities will be offered for sale on the Siopel platform of the National Stock Exchange.The first, of $284 million, will have a gross rate of 9% with maturity in 2020, and the second of $595 million, with a gross rate of 10.79% with maturity in 2028.
At the end of June 2018, Nicaragua's public external debt amounted to $5.645 billion, 2% more than was reported at the end of 2017.
The Central Bank of Nicaragua reported that as of June the public external debt totaled US $5.6447 billion, which represented a net increase of US $35.6 million with respect to the previous month.
S & P has downgraded the debt rating from B + to B, arguing that the escalation of the internal conflict has weakened governance, and the rating could be reduced again in the next 12 months if the violence continues to rise.
From a press release by Standard & Poor´s:
Heightened domestic conflict and ongoing violence have weakened governability and impaired the predictability and effectiveness of policy implementation in Nicaragua, in our view.
During the first six months of this year Panama's public debt grew by 3.6% in six months, rising from $23.384 billion in January to $24.233 billion at the end of June.
According to figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Panama, in the first semester of the year, external debt has also reported an increase, rising from $18.371 million registered at the beginning of January to $19.603 billion registered at the end of June, registering an increase of 7%
The government of the Caribbean country issued $1.3 billion in the international market for a term of 10 years and an interest rate of 6%.
This is the second issue that the Dominican Republic has made in the international market, as in the month of February it issued $1 billion for a term of 30 years and a rate of 6.5%, and another of $822 million for a 5 year term and a rate of 8.9%.
The government of Costa Rica announced that in the first semester it would issue up to $2.175 billion in debt securities in the local market, however, as of June it has already issued $3.633 billion.
In February of this year, the Ministry of Finance announced that in the first semester it would issue $2.175 million in debt securities through the auction mechanisms and electronic window in the local market.But according to data from the National Stock Exchange, from January to June, the amount awarded exceeded the initial estimates by 67%.
To avoid further pressure on local interest rates, the Ministry of Finance will be considering issuing $1 billion a year in the international market over the next four years.
Representatives from the Ministry of Finance confirmed that they are preparing an application to the Legislative Assembly to issue $4 billion in debt securities in the international market.
Between May 2017 and the same month in 2018, the country's public debt rose from $22.96 billion to $24.849 billion, which is equivalent to an increase of 8%.
According to figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Panama, in the first five months of the year, the debt has also reported an increase, rising from $23.373 billion registered at the beginning of January to $24.849 billion calculated at the end of May, which represents a 6% increase.