TREE NEWS update: Guizhou province issued 59.44 billion yuan ($8.2 billion) in local government bonds on Wednesday, including a 10-year general bond of 3.195 billion yuan at a 1.74% yield and a 20-year special bond of 16.94 billion yuan at 2.25%. Two 30-year special tranches totaling 39.31 billion yuan priced at 2.28%, with the 20 billion yuan other-special tranche drawing a marginal bid-to-cover of 347.23 times.
Guizhou Issues 59.4B Yuan in Local Government Bonds Across Four Tranches
The striking figure here is the bid-to-cover on the 20 billion yuan other-special tranche, which signals demand far outstripping supply even as Guizhou — a province with well-documented fiscal strain — brings a heavy 30-year component. Pricing on the long tenors sits within a narrow band, suggesting the market is treating provincial credit risk as largely a function of the central government's implicit backing rather than of Guizhou's own balance sheet. Whether that compression holds as more provinces issue at similar maturities is the open question.
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