Srilanka, Feb. 21 -- Market participants in the secondary market continued their buying momentum for the third consecutive day, driven by strong foreign buying interest.

This resulted in high trading volumes and increased activity in the secondary market trades. Accordingly, the yield curve witnessed a decline from short to belly end of the curve.

Amongst the traded maturities, in the short end 01.05.27 maturity traded at 9.22% whilst 15.09.27 and 15.10.27 bonds traded at the range of 9.41% to 9.47%. Meanwhile, both 15.02.28 and 15.03.28 maturities traded at 10.00%. Additionally, 15.09.28, 15.10.28 and 15.12.28 bonds traded at the range of 10.30% to 10.35%, whilst 15.09.29 traded at 10.75%. 15.10.30 maturity traded between 11.12% to ...