China’s tech giant Tencent is expected to sell four tranches of bonds worth $5 billion on Jan 19, according to the company’s announcement last Friday.
中國科技巨頭騰訊公司上周五宣布,預計將在1月19日發行四批價值50億美元的債券。
The 4 tranches include 5-, 10-, and 20-year fixed-rate bonds at 2.985 percent, 3.595 percent, and 3.925 percent, respectively, and 5-year floating-rate bonds at 0.605 percent over three-month LIBOR.
這四批分別是5年期、10年期和20年期的固定利率債券,年利率分別為2.985%、3.595%和3.925%,以及5年期浮動利率債券,年利率為以三個月美元倫敦銀行同業拆息加0.605%。
Currently, Tencent’s bond rates are above US Treasury securities.
當前,騰訊的債券利率高於美國國債。
The bonds selling plan is part of the company’s $10 billion medium-term bonds issuing plan announced last Tuesday.
該債券銷售計劃是騰訊上周二公布的100億美元中期債券發行計劃的一部分。
According to Bloomberg, the Tencent deal attracted orders totaling more than $41 billion, and nearly half of investors are from the US.
據彭博社報導,該交易已吸引了410億美元的認購,其中將近一半投資者來自美國。
The global rating agency Moody’s has assigned a rating of A2, meaning low risk of default, to the Tencent bonds. The rating is one level below China’s business titan Alibaba’s bonds, issued last November.
全球評級機構穆迪將其評級為A2,這意味著對騰訊債券的違約風險較低。該評級比中國商業巨頭阿里巴巴去年11月發布的債券的評級低一個級別。
Last year, Chinese companies issued a record high of $180 billion US dollar-denominated bonds in overseas markets, a 70 percent surge from 2016 , according to a Xinhua news agency report citing Bloomberg’s data.
去年,中國企業共在海外市場發行了1800億美元債券,相比2016年激增了70%,刷新紀錄,據新華社援引彭博社的數據。
This year, the size is expected to reach $200 billion, the Xinhua report stated based on remarks from industry insiders.
基於業內人士的評論,新華社報導稱,今年的規模預計將達到2000億美元。