Posco, South Korea's largest steelmaker and the world's fourth biggest, plans to raise a minimum of $500 million from the sale of five-year senior global US dollar bonds, and could price the deal as early as Thursday evening, New York time, according to banking sources.
The transaction would mark the first US dollar bond offering from an Asian corporate this year, and the first since the $1 billion issue by Hong Kong and China Gas in July 2008.
The company completed a two-day roadshow yesterday, during which one team of representatives and advisers visited Singapore, Hong Kong and London, and another met investors in Los Angeles, New York and Boston.
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