NYC Bonds

The City of New York (“the City”) announced today the successful sale of approximately $1.15 billion General Obligation Bonds, comprised of $895 million of tax-exempt fixed rate bonds and $250 million of taxable fixed rate bonds.

During a two-day retail order period for the tax-exempt bonds, the City received $217 million of retail orders, of which approximately $196 million was usable.

During the institutional order period, the City received nearly $2.0 billion of priority orders, representing 2.9x the bonds offered for sale to institutional investors. Given the strong market demand, yields were reduced by 1 – 2 basis points for maturities in 2022 through 2025, 2 – 3 basis points for maturities in 2030 through 2032, 7 – 8 basis points for maturities in 2034 through 2035 and 2 basis points for maturities in 2041 – 2042. Final stated yields ranged from 1.58% in 2020 to 3.36%
in 2044 for a 5.00% coupon bond and 3.70% in 2045 for a 3.625% coupon bond.

The tax-exempt bonds were sold via negotiated sale by the City’s underwriting syndicate, led by book-running senior manager Jefferies, with BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan, Loop Capital Markets, Ramirez & Co. Inc., RBC Capital Markets and Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. serving as co-senior managers.

The City also sold $250 million of taxable fixed rate bonds, comprised of two subseries, via competitive bid. The first subseries of approximately $187 million of bonds maturing in 2021 through 2028 attracted seven bidders, with RBC Capital Markets winning at a true interest cost of 3.417%. The second subseries of approximately $63 million of bonds, which mature in 2029 through 2030 and are also callable at par in 2028, attracted seven bidders, with Jefferies winning at a true interest cost of 3.783%.