By Emese Bartha

Belgium issued 8 billion euros ($9.35 billion) in a new 10-year, June 2036-dated government bond, or OLO, via a bank syndicate on Wednesday, one of the banks said.

Books for the new government bond closed in excess of 91 billion euros, the same bank said.

The spread on the bond was set at 54 basis points above midswaps. The bond, which has a 3.40% coupon, was priced at 99.703, at a yield of 3.436%, the same bank said.

Joint bookrunners of the deal were Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole CIB, HSBC and J.P. Morgan.

Write to Emese Bartha at emese.bartha@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

01-07-26 1029ET

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