Qatar's central bank sells 165 mln USD of treasury bills

DOHA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Qatar's central bank sold 600 million riyals (roughly 165 million U.S. dollars) of treasury bills in an auction, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

A total of 300 million riyals worth of three-month treasury bills were sold at 2.07 percent and 200 million riyals worth of six-month treasury bills at 2.22 percent, the bank said.

It added that 100 million worth of nine-month treasury bills were sold at 2.23 percent.