Starbucks, Regions, Entergy, Fidelity, National Fuel price; Elanco eyes $2.5 billion deal

By Cristal Cody

Tupelo, Miss., Aug. 8 – Investment-grade bond supply remained strong on Wednesday, bringing week-to-date issuance to about $30 billion.

Starbucks Corp. led pricing action during the session with a $3 billion three-part offering of senior notes.

Regions Bank came with $1 billion of three-year notes in two tranches, while Regions Financial Corp. sold $500 million of five-year senior notes.

Entergy Louisiana LLC placed $600 million of 30-year collateral trust mortgage bonds.

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. priced $450 million of 10-year senior notes.

In addition, National Fuel Gas Co. sold $300 million of 10-year notes.

In other issuance, AT&T Inc. priced C$2 billion of global senior notes in two tranches in a deal registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Willis Lease Finance Corp. also announced on Wednesday an offering of $373.4 million of fixed-rate notes in two tranches.

Syndicate sources had expected about $20 billion to $25 billion of volume for the whole week.

Coming up on Thursday, Elanco Animal Health Inc. plans to hold fixed-income investor calls for a potential $2.5 billion offering of senior notes.

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