Egypt sells more 182-day T-bills than it offered

CAIRO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Egypt's central bank sold

more 182-day treasury bills than originally offered at an

auction on Thursday, but trimmed the amount of 357-day T-bills

it sold, the bank said..

It sold 4.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($745.50 million) of

182-day T-bills on behalf of the Finance Ministry instead of the

3 billion pounds it had offered. The average yield edged up to

14.923 percent from 14.918 percent at last week's auction.

It sold 2.5 billion pounds of 357-day T-bills instead of the

4 billion pounds it had offered. The average yield fell to

15.965 percent from 15.975 percent at the last issue on Feb. 14.

(For more detail on T-Bills see Reuters pages from

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($1=6.0379 Egyptian Pound)

(Reporting by Mohamed Samir)