McDonaldÆs debuts in Hong Kong dollar bond market

The fast food giant''s foray into the Hong Kong dollar bond markets makes it the second foreign corporation this year to do so.

Prakash Chakravarti

May 29, 2002

Mcdonald's Corporation launched a debut HK$600 million issue off its EMTN programme yesterday (Wednesday). Led by Barclays, the fixed rate bond carries a coupon of 5.44% and matures in June 2007. Pricing came at 99.75% to yield 44bp over Hibor, and had already tightened to 41bp over by late afternoon. Bank of East Asia and Standard Chartered were co-managers.

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