{"id":6880,"date":"2012-01-10T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/s-africa-plans-to-issue-2024-international-bond\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T06:32:00","slug":"s-africa-plans-to-issue-2024-international-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-plans-to-issue-2024-international-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa plans to issue 2024 international bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa plans to<br \/>\nissue about 1 billion dollars of a 12-year bond in the<br \/>\ninternational markets on Tuesday, traders said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bond is in line with the Treasury&#8217;s budget plans to tap<br \/>\ninternational markets for about a billion dollars a year for the<br \/>\nnext two years after issuing 750 million dollars in a 30-year<br \/>\nbond in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>IFR Markets said the bond&#8217;s initial pricing had tightened 5<br \/>\nbasis points to 270 basis points from 275 basis points earlier.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deal is led by Barclays Capital and Citygroup, and<br \/>\nTreasury is expected to announce final pricing on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAnalysts say investor demand might see the bond come to over 1<br \/>\nbillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deal will be closely monitored by the market. Analysts<br \/>\nsay South African state-owned companies such as Eskom are<br \/>\nexpected to follow suit soon after.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Xola Potelwa)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Jan 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa plans to issue about 1 billion dollars of a 12-year bond in the international markets on Tuesday, traders said. The bond is in line with the Treasury&#8217;s budget plans to tap international markets for about a billion dollars a year for the next two years after issuing 750 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}