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EUR 185.60 For Business Accounts Only

Peabody Energy Corporation: Peabody’s revolver amendment and pulled bond deal do not impact ratings

A brief comment on the decision by Peabody to abandon planned refinancing and to amend the existing credit agreement.
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Peabody Energy Corporation

Peabody Energy is a coal company, engaged in the mining of thermal coal for sale primarily to electric utilities and metallurgical coal for sale to industrial customers. The company owns interests in several coal mining operations located in the U.S. and Australia. The company has a majority interest in several of those mining operations and an equity interest in Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd. (Middlemount), which owns the Middlemount Mine in Queensland, Australia. In addition to its mining operations, the company markets and brokers coal from other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight-related contracts through trading and business offices in the U.S., Australia, China, and the U.K.

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Moody's Investors Service
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