Wellington, May 20 NZPA - The Government intends to issue $12.5 billion of bonds in the year to June 30, 2011, which is $2b less than signalled in the December half-year update.

Wellington, April 28 NZPA - The Government will continue selling bonds in coming months after increasing the size of this year's domestic bond programme by $2 billion.

Wellington, May 4 NZPA - The Government is upping the amount of money it is raising from the sale of bonds in the current financial year by $1 billion and is signalling the sale of more longer-dated bonds.

Wellington, May 4 NZPA - The Government is introducing a longer-dated bond to its bond sales programme in the hope it can establish a new benchmark 10-year bond for the local debt market.