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Mauritius offers 5-year and 15-year T-bonds worth 3.3 bln rupees

A Mauritian man rides his motorbike past Mauritius' central bank in the capital Port Louis, file. REUTERS/Ed Harris

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius will auction a reopened five-year Treasury bond worth 1.8 billion rupees ($51.2 million) next week, the central bank said on Wednesday. The Bank of Mauritius said in a statement it would receive bids on Sept. 15 and auction the bond on the same day. The bond would carry a coupon rate of 4.10 percent and would mature on May 20, 2021, the bank said. The bank said it would also auction a 15-year Treasury bond worth 1.5 billion rupees on Sept. 14. It said the coupon rate for the paper, which matures on Sept. 16, 2031, would be set equal to or higher than the lowest accepted yield. ($1 = 35.1300 Mauritius rupees) (Reporting by Jean Paul Arouff; Editing by George Obulutsa and Gareth Jones)