Egypt to auction 550mln euros in one-year euro-denominated T-bills, central bank says
The bills will replace 609.8 million euros in maturing one-year T-bills that carried an average weighted yield of 3.75%.
($1 = 0.8592 euros) (Reporting by Jaidaa Taha and Menna Alaa El-Din Editing by David Goodman)
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