Freddie Mac Prices New $2.5 Billion Two-Year and New $2.5 Billion Five-Year Reference Notes Securities

MCLEAN, Va., July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today that it priced its new 0.125% two-year USD Reference Notes^® security due on July 25, 2022 and a new 0.375% five-year USD Reference Notes^® security due on July 21, 2025.

The two-year issue, CUSIP number 3137EAET2, was priced at 99.774 to yield 0.238%, 9.5 basis points more than the yield on two-year U.S. Treasury Notes. The five-year issue, CUSIP number 3137EAEU9, was priced at 99.502 to yield 0.476%, 21 basis points more than the yield on five-year U.S. Treasury Notes. Both issues will settle on Thursday, July 23, 2020.

The new two-year and five-year Reference Notes securities are offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Nomura Securities International, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities LLC. Co-managers are Great Pacific Securities, Loop Capital Markets LLC, Mischler Financial Group Inc., Multi-Bank Securities Inc., Blaylock Van LLC, and Siebert, Williams, Shank & Co. LLC.

This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 13, 2020; all other reports Freddie Mac filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) since December 31, 2019, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K; and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Exchange Act, excluding any information “furnished” to the SEC on Form 8-K.

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