Government Bond prices

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:06 GMT

MTS Reference Prices provide the official open and close government bond prices calculated by EuroMTS each day based on the benchmark trading from the MTS platforms.

Our online bond prices service allows users to easily download prices of all Treasury bills and Government bonds trading and priced on MTS markets. Reference Prices are published twice a day, immediately after each fixing:

  • 11.02 CET - Open Fixing
  • 16.02 CET - Close Fixing

The bond prices file contains the following fields:

  • ISIN
  • Reference Bond Prices
  • Snapshot Time
  • Reference Yields
  • Snapshot Date

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