Mandar Pitale, Head - Treasury, SBM Bank India's view on uniform pricing for bonds

Government's Decision to conduct 14 year paper auction using uniform price is a good move. This will encourage more participative bidding with better price discovery as there is no "winner's curse" for aggressive bidders.

There is a daunting task in front of RBI to provide yield direction across the yield curve against run away sale off.

If this trend of conducting uniform price based auction in 12 to 15 year segment continues; then this segment will get itself adequately realigned to most actively traded 10 year segment. There is a significant likelihood that the next immediate candidate for yield direction is 5 year segment where market has witnessed 60-70 bp sale off since the beginning of this calendar year.

Source : Equity Bulls

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