FRN Variable Rate Fix
09 January 2001 - 10:05AM
UK Regulatory
RNS Number:9065W
United Kingdom
9 January 2001
LETTER TO: COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS OFFICE
United Kingdom 08 Jan
US$ 2,000,000,000 FLOATING RATE NOTES due 2001 ISIN XS0069824331
As agent bank we advise that the rate set for interest period 10 January 2001 to
09 April 2001 (90/360) was 5.36250 per cent per annum.
Bid quotation to leading Banks for three month Eurodollar Deposits in London at
11.00 am - as obtained from:
Union Bank of Switzerland 5.48000
National Westminster Bank 5.48000
Barclays Bank Plc 5.48000
Midland Bank 5.49000
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co of New York 5.50000
Deutsche Bank AG 5.50500
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(Arithmetic Mean Rate rounded up to nearest 0.00001%) 5.48750
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Less 0.125% 5.362500
Amount per denomination/coupon no - 18
US $ 1,000 = 13.41 x 10,000 = * 134,100.00
US $ 10,000 = 134.06 x 10,000 = 1,340,600.00
US $ 100,000 = 1340.63 x 1,000 = 1,340,630.00
US $ 1,000,000 = 13406.25 x 1,790 = 23,997,187.50
Total Payable on 10 April 2001 = 26,812,517.50
* number of definitives at that denomination.
From: Custodial Services Group (Bank of England)