Economists..was this new 600milion USD loan competitive?
http://news.yahoo.com/ke...4-75-pct-095708760.html
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya plans to start negotiations on a sovereign bond after agreeing to borrow $600 million in a debut two-year syndicate loan from foreign creditors at an interest rate of 4.75 percent above Libor, the finance minister said on Tuesday.
The loan, which replaced a planned Eurobond and is meant to substitute nearly half of a 119 billion shillings local borrowing target for the 2011/12 (July-June) fiscal year, would go towards ongoing infrastructure projects, officials said.
Treasury said in April it had postponed the Eurobond to the 2013/14 fiscal year, and analyst said the success of the syndicate loan was a good pointer at the ability of the biggest economy in east Africa to access the global financial markets.
Kenya is rated B+ by Standard & Poor's and Fitch.
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