The bonds for auction

The Finance Ministry will place 2.5 billion rubles each in additional issues of OFZ-AD 45001 and 46001 bonds at auction on Wednesday, November 19, deputy chief of the ministry's domestic debt department Alexander Chumachenko told Interfax. If necessary, the ministry will issue more bonds in secondary trading. "If there is demand for long instruments we will sell [additional issues] from our portfolio," he said, adding that there might be additional issues of 46002 and 46014 bonds.