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Thursday, June 23, 2011

CEMEX Scraps $650 Million Bond Offering

Cemex SAB, the largest cement maker in the Americas, scrapped a $650 million bond offering today. The company pulled the sale of eight-year bonds because of “volatility” in global markets, said Jorge Perez, a spokesman for the Monterrey, Mexico-based company.

Cemex, battered by a slowdown in the U.S., its biggest foreign market, had planned to sell the bonds to repay debt stemming from a $15 billion loan in 2009 that helped it refinance in order to avoid default. The company needs to pay back $200 million of debt by the year's end to prevent the interest rate on $7.6 billion of loans from rising by 50 basis points.

From the report: "The yield on Cemex’s benchmark dollar bonds due in 2020 jumped 40 basis points, or 0.40 percentage point, to 9.74 percent at 5 p.m. New York time, the highest since October. Jack Deino, who oversees approximately $1.8 billion of emerging-market debt at Invesco Inv. in New York, said "For Cemex, what’s going to move it or break it is the recovery of the construction market in the U.S."

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