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BONDS
Car giant carves its yield curve
Issuer: DaimlerChrysler
Deals: $2 billion 10-year Eurobond, $1.5 billion five-year Eurobond, $1 billion FRN
Date: August 161999
Bookrunners: Credit Suisse First Boston, Salomon Smith Barney
With its $4.5 billion three-tranche financing in August, DaimlerChrysler firmly put itself on the map as a newly merged entity. This was the second-biggest industrial company debt offering of all time.
And it was done at an awkward moment, bang in the middle of the holiday season when Argentina was looking decidedly shaky too.
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