Record NTT Bond Deal Spurs Japan Firms to Pay More to Borrow
- Panasonic marketing bonds at higher coupons than NTT
- This is busiest December ever for Japan corporate-note sales
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Japan’s biggest-ever yen corporate bond sale has made this the busiest December on record for the market, and the flood of supply is forcing companies to pay more for money.
Panasonic Corp. is marketing a note sale with higher yields than last week’s record 1 trillion yen ($9.7 billion) Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. debt deal. The NTT offering itself priced with what investors called attractive coupons. Daicel Corp. recently sold bonds that had yield premiums several basis points higher than similar-maturity debt issued last month by Haseko Corp., which has the same credit rating.