By Angela McDaniels
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 27 - Barclays Bank plc priced $3 million of notes due Dec. 28, 2015 linked to a basket of 10 commodity indexes, according to a 424B2 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The basket includes equal weights of the S&P GSCI Sugar Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Cocoa Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Corn Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Cotton Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Coffee Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Gold Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Natural Gas Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Aluminum Index Excess Return, the S&P GSCI Nickel Index Excess Return and the S&P GSCI Zinc Index Excess Return.
The notes pay a coupon each year equal to 0.5% plus the greater of (a) the average of the indexes' performances on the applicable coupon observation date and (b) zero. The coupon observation dates are Dec. 22, 2012, Dec. 22, 2013, Dec. 22, 2014 and Dec. 22, 2015.
If an index's return is greater than or equal to zero, its performance will be 9.5%. Otherwise, the index's performance will be the greater of its return and negative 20%.
The payout at maturity will be par plus the final coupon payment.
Barclays Capital Inc. is the agent.
Issuer: | Barclays Bank plc
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Issue: | Notes
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Underlying indexes: | S&P GSCI Sugar Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Cocoa Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Corn Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Cotton Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Coffee Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Gold Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Natural Gas Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Aluminum Index Excess Return, S&P GSCI Nickel Index Excess Return and S&P GSCI Zinc Index Excess Return, equally weighted
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Amount: | $3 million
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Maturity: | Dec. 28, 2015
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Coupon: | 0.5% plus greater of (a) average of indexes' performances on applicable coupon observation date and (b) zero; payable annually
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Index performance: | If index's return is greater than or equal to zero, 9.5%; otherwise, greater of index's return and negative 20%
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Price: | Par
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Payout at maturity: | Par plus final coupon payment
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Initial index levels: | 29.72258 for sugar index; 32.62760 for coffee index; 8.69893 for cocoa index; 14.54424 for corn index; 47.00309 for cotton index; 137.69320 for gold index; 0.47102 for natural gas index; 38.80936 for aluminum index; 279.69640 for nickel index; 50.92726 for zinc index
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Pricing date: | Dec. 22
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Settlement date: | Dec. 28
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Agent: | Barclays Capital Inc.
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Fees: | 4%
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Cusip: | 06738KB34
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