Intanto piazzano altri 8 mld $ di bond, tutti sotto garanzia FDIC, sui 45 mld $ di debito da rifinanziare quest'anno.
E spero bene che stiano cmq allungando le scadenze nei limiti consentiti dalla garanzia federale riducendo ulteriormente la quantità di funding ottenuto sul mercato della commercial paper...
GE Capital Hires Banks to Sell Government-Backed Debt (Update5)
By Patricia Kuo and Shannon D. Harrington
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Capital Corp., the finance arm of General Electric Co., is selling $8 billion of U.S. government-backed bonds as debt investors speculate the finance unit will need to raise more capital.
Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley are arranging the sale, which will be backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to an e-mail sent to investors. Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc are also helping with the issue.
“The market is going to remain heavily dominated by government-guaranteed paper for many more months as people are scared of corporate defaults and the lack of liquidity in non- guaranteed bonds,” said
Guthrie Williamson, a Sydney-based money manager with Principal Global Investors, which oversees $198 billion.
General Electric shares fell below $6 last week for the first time since December 1991 on concern that GE Capital may need more cash amid rising credit-card delinquencies and $4 billion in unrealized property losses. Credit-default swaps on GE Capital have been trading as if the unit were rated below investment-grade, even as GE Chief Financial Officer
Keith Sherin said March 5 it had $45 billion in cash, he sees no need to raise additional capital and GE’s financial services businesses expect to be profitable in the current quarter and year.
Yields Over Benchmarks
GE Capital’s $4 billion of two-year, fixed-rate notes may price to yield eight basis points more than the benchmark mid- swap rate, and its $1 billion of two-year, floating rate notes may float at eight basis points over the three-month London interbank offered rate, according to a person familiar with the sale who declined to be identified because terms aren’t set.
The company’s $1.5 billion of three-year, fixed-rate notes may price to yield 20 basis points more than the mid-swap rate, and its $1.5 billion of three-year, floating-rate notes may float at 20 basis points over three-month Libor, the person said.
Libor, a borrowing benchmark currently set at 1.31 percent. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
Bonds guaranteed through the FDIC’s Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program are rated Aaa by Moody’s Investors Service and AAA by Standard & Poor’s, their highest classifications. The FDIC in October agreed to guarantee three-year senior unsecured bank debt issued through June 30 as part of a U.S. Treasury plan to stimulate lending. The program has since been extended to debt issued through Oct. 31.
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