Swaps In May 2004, Sysco Corporation, the distributor of food and food-related products (not to be confused

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Swaps In May 2004, Sysco Corporation, the distributor of food and food-related products

(not to be confused with Cisco Systems), announced it had signed an interest rate swap. The interest rate swap effectively converted the company’s $100 million, 4.6 percent interest rate bonds for a variable rate payment, which would be the six-month LIBOR minus 0.52 percent.

Why would Sysco use a swap agreement? In other words, why didn’t Sysco just go ahead and issue fl oating-rate bonds because the net effect of issuing fi xed-rate bonds and then doing a swap is to create a variable rate bond?

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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 9780073105901

8th Edition

Authors: Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan

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