New Greek €5 Billion 10 Year Bond Prices At 300 Over Midswaps, 326 bps Over 2020 Bund, Comes With 6.25% Coupon
March 4, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Greek 10 year bond issue priced at a reoffer of 98.942; It came with a 6.25% coupon, and pricede at 300 over midswaps or 326 bps over the January 2020 Bund. The bond pays annual interest: what are the InTrade odds that even one coupon gets made on this issue?
Bloomberg notes that the WI is already trading up in the “gray market”:
Greece’s 5 billion euros ($6.8
billion) of new 10-year bonds rose in the so-called grey market
for issues that haven’t priced after the government offered an
interest premium over existing debt. The benchmark securities climbed about 0.25 cent on the
euro as of 4 p.m. in London, or 2.5 euros per 1,000-euro face
amount, according to traders at Matrix Corporate Capital LLP.
Greece is selling the notes at a spread of 300 basis points more
than the mid-swap rate, for a yield of 6.35 percent. That
compares with 6.09 percent on Greece’s existing benchmark issue
due July 2019, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
