Century of Debt Suiting Ohio State at These Rates: Muni Credit

Ohio State University is joining issuers going into hock for 100 years as dwindling borrowing costs kindle the appeal of locking in interest rates for a century.

The school, with its main campus in Columbus, may sell $150 million in taxable century bonds as soon as this week. It will issue as the relative cost of borrowing for longer periods is shrinking: Thirty-year debt yielded as little as 0.83 percentage point more than 10-year bonds last week, the smallest gap since 2012, data compiled by Bloomberg show.