Corporate debt: Autos get back in gear

Unsecured debt markets are still open for GMAC and Ford

Autos get back in gear

In July, GMAC returned to the unsecured market for the first time since having been downgraded to junk by Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings in May. There was no shortage of takers for its €500 million two-year fixed-rate issue led by Lehman Brothers and Citigroup – a €2 billion order book was built in little over an hour, proving that the auto financier is not purely reliant on the secured markets for funds.

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