KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 — Short-term interbank rates closed stable today on Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) operations to absorb surplus liquidity from the financial system.

Liquidity in the conventional system fell to RM37.19 billion from RM39.02 billion this morning, while Islamic funds’ liquidity narrowed to RM23.43 billion from RM27.28 billion previously.

Earlier today, the central bank conducted a conventional money market tender, two Qard tenders and two reverse repo tenders.

It also announced the availability of reverse repo, sale and buy-back agreements as well as Collateralised Commodity Murabahah facilities for tenors of one to three months.

At 4 pm, BNM called for a RM36.7 billion conventional money market tender and a RM23.4 billion Murabahah money market tender, both for one-day money.

The Malaysia Islamic Overnight Rate (MYOR-i) stood at 2.99 per cent as of Aug 4. — Bernama