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The notes, which may price as early as today, will be marketed to yield about 2.25%, the person said, asking not to be identified as details are private.
The three-year notes may price to yield about 5.8% and may be sold as early as today, the person said, asking not to be identified as details are private.
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Keppel Corp., the world’s largest oil-rig maker, hired DBS Bank and Deutsche Bank AG to help it sell 10-year Singapore dollar-denominated bonds, according to a person familiar with the matter. The notes may price to yield around the 3.1% area, the person said, asking not to be identified as details are private. The sale may be benchmark in size, the person said. Benchmark typically means at least $500 million.
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The Chinese currency has risen to a new high against the dollar, as U.S. lawmakers push to get tougher on China for what they say is an undervalued currency.
Since Beijing removed the yuan’s peg to the U.S. dollar in June after pressure from its largest trading partners, the yuan has strengthened only by about one percent.
The 2.375% notes, which mature in September 2015, rose to 102 cents on the dollar from their sale price of 99.691 cents as of 9:30 a.m. in Singapore, according to DBS Bank prices.
