On August 3, Alphabet issued bonds worth $10 billion. This is the largest issue of debt securities in the history of the company, according to the Reuters.
With $ 10 billion bond tranche allocated $ 1 billion with a maturity of 5 years and a coupon of 0.45%. The $4.5 billion tranches with maturities of 7, 20 and 40 years will be spent on “corporate goals”, including new acquisition. The remaining $5.5 billion will go to environmental, social and governance initiatives.
0.45% is one of the lowest coupon interest rates: lower yield only released on June 2020 the first three years of structural notes c Amazon coupon of 0.4%. In 2013, $1.5 billion worth of bonds with a coupon of 0.45% and a maturity of five years were edited by Apple. For Alphabet lowest coupon yield was recorded in 2014 – when it was 1.25%.
Reuters notes that low interest rates and the program to buy corporate bonds of the Federal Reserve support the emissions of debt bonds.
“There are a very short list of upscale companies that have not suffered from the recession, and Google is one of them,” – the agency quotes the words of the head of the fixed income department of Brown Advisory Tom Graff. According to him, the rate of 0.45% exceeds twice the yield of five-year US Treasury bonds (US Treasuries).
China reduced its US Treasury bond portfolio by $ 6.22 billion to $ 1.062 trillion amid strained relations with Washington in September. This was reported on Friday by the South China Morning Post, citing data from the US Treasury. This was the lowest amount of these investments since February 2017. According to the publication, China […]
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