(Bloomberg.com) — Ford Motor Co.’s finance arm sold $1.75 billion of five-year debt, taking advantage of investor demand for high-yield bonds, on pace for the longest rally since 1996.
Ford Motor Credit Co., the biggest issuer of speculative- grade securities last year and the only one of the three largest U.S. automakers to avoid bankruptcy, sold the notes with a 7 percent coupon. That’s the lowest fixed-rate yield Ford has paid on dollar bonds since June 2005, and compares with the 8.7 percent rate on similar notes sold in September, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.