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Spain Sells $4.47 Billion in First Bond Sale Since Moody's Cut
By Emma Ross-Thomas - Oct 7, 2010 11:12 AM GMT+0200 Thu Oct 07 09:12:56 GMT 2010
The government sold the notes due 2013 at an average yield of 2.527 percent, the Treasury in Madrid said today, compared with 2.276 percent at a sale on Aug. 5, and a secondary market rate of 2.604 before the sale. Demand was 2.15 times the amount sold, compared with 1.89 times in August. The Treasury aimed to sell a maximum of 4 billion euros.
Moody’s cut its rating for Spain to Aa1 from Aaa on Sept. 30, citing a weak economic outlook. Still, the company assigned a stable outlook and said the government would probably achieve its goal of cutting the budget deficit in half by next year. Spain’s 10-year borrowing costs have fallen to 4 percent from almost 5 percent in June, when Greece’s debt crisis was spreading through southern Europe.
“Demand was decent,” said Harvinder Sian, a senior bond strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Plc in London. “It looks like we’re in some kind of pocket of stability.”
Three-year notes yielded 2.569 percent at 10:59 a.m. in Madrid, compared with 2.604 percent before the sale, while the extra yield investors demand to hold Spanish 10-year bonds rather than German equivalents narrowed to 175.5 basis points, from 177.6 basis points yesterday.
Before today’s sale, Spain had about a quarter of its 2010 gross debt issuance to complete, according to data from the Treasury. Net debt issuance will amount to 43.3 billion euros next year, compared with a planned 76.1 billion euros in 2010, according to the 2011 budget that is making its way through Parliament for approval by the end of the year.
Last quarter was the best for Spanish bonds since before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed in September 2008 as investors backed government steps to lower public workers’ wages, freeze pensions and raise taxes to trim a deficit that reached 11.1 percent of gross domestic product last year. Spanish bonds returned 4.1 percent in the third quarter, after the government cut public workers wages 5 percent, set a deficit target of 6 percent of gross domestic product for 2011, and raised value-added tax to 18 percent from 16 percent.
Spain lost its top grade at Fitch Ratings in May and at Standard & Poor’s in January 2009.
(Bloomberg)
By Emma Ross-Thomas - Oct 7, 2010 11:12 AM GMT+0200 Thu Oct 07 09:12:56 GMT 2010
The government sold the notes due 2013 at an average yield of 2.527 percent, the Treasury in Madrid said today, compared with 2.276 percent at a sale on Aug. 5, and a secondary market rate of 2.604 before the sale. Demand was 2.15 times the amount sold, compared with 1.89 times in August. The Treasury aimed to sell a maximum of 4 billion euros.
Moody’s cut its rating for Spain to Aa1 from Aaa on Sept. 30, citing a weak economic outlook. Still, the company assigned a stable outlook and said the government would probably achieve its goal of cutting the budget deficit in half by next year. Spain’s 10-year borrowing costs have fallen to 4 percent from almost 5 percent in June, when Greece’s debt crisis was spreading through southern Europe.
“Demand was decent,” said Harvinder Sian, a senior bond strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Plc in London. “It looks like we’re in some kind of pocket of stability.”
Three-year notes yielded 2.569 percent at 10:59 a.m. in Madrid, compared with 2.604 percent before the sale, while the extra yield investors demand to hold Spanish 10-year bonds rather than German equivalents narrowed to 175.5 basis points, from 177.6 basis points yesterday.
Before today’s sale, Spain had about a quarter of its 2010 gross debt issuance to complete, according to data from the Treasury. Net debt issuance will amount to 43.3 billion euros next year, compared with a planned 76.1 billion euros in 2010, according to the 2011 budget that is making its way through Parliament for approval by the end of the year.
Last quarter was the best for Spanish bonds since before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed in September 2008 as investors backed government steps to lower public workers’ wages, freeze pensions and raise taxes to trim a deficit that reached 11.1 percent of gross domestic product last year. Spanish bonds returned 4.1 percent in the third quarter, after the government cut public workers wages 5 percent, set a deficit target of 6 percent of gross domestic product for 2011, and raised value-added tax to 18 percent from 16 percent.
Spain lost its top grade at Fitch Ratings in May and at Standard & Poor’s in January 2009.
(Bloomberg)