Buffett's Berkshire taps yen debt with $ 1.5 Billion Offering.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Warren Buffett evaluated the yen-denominated bonds as yen yields fell to their lowest in more than two years, resulting in Berkshire Hathaway selling $ 1.5 billion of bonds.
Average spreads on local Japanese corporate bonds fell to about 29 basis points, the lowest since December 2018, after the Bank of Japan adjusted its monetary policy. The offer allows Japanese investors to buy shares of a well-known international firm while receiving slightly...
higher returns than are usually offered on the local market, as reported Bloomberg.
As part of the deal, Berkshire Hathaway valued the 10-year bonds at 80 billion yen with a 0.437% coupon, compared with about 0.1% on Japanese government debt of the same maturity.
The deal also included 5-year and 20-year bonds with expected ratings from Moody's Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings higher than the ratings assigned to Japan's sovereign debt by these firms.
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I'm certainly not a fan of this writer's style, politics, ideology and thoughts, but once in a while he amazes me with blunt truths which hit me deep in my marrow, and make me want to literally hug him. The understated is one of these home truths. Please read and share widely.
The Truth My Fulani Friends Must Accept
“ Everything that has a beginning must have an end.
As they say on the street:
“ E fit take time, but one day, one day, Monkey go go market”
“I love this quote about injustice:
"Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating.
“I was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament on December 12, 1959. And I remained in parliament until January 15, 1966 when the government was overthrown. I was the Federal Minister of Education in that cabinet.
I woke up one morning in my official house in Ikoyi, Lagos, to discover that my telephone was not working. I had never experienced coup before nor did I know that it was a coup. I was thinking it was just a telephone fault, until a colleague of mine in the cabinet, ...
Chief Abiodun Akerele, came in and told me there had been a military coup. So, I had the fortune or the misfortune of being a victim of the first coup in this country.
Many people may not know that I spent 18 months in detention in various prisons across the country.
IMA MMOWU (INITIATON INTO THE MASQUERADE CULT) IN ARONDIZUOGU AS DESCRIBED BY MAZI MBONU OJIKE
“In my town no boy can be considered adult until he has performed the Imamowu rituals. He must earn enough money by his own labour to pay the huge fees ranging from 3 to 30 pounds.
He must provide ten mounds of utara, or pounded yam meal, which no two persons heaving together could lift up an inch from the floor. He must provide other edibles and drinkables upon which the members must feast until their stomachs appear to be bursting.
At midnight he is led into a dark room where he is frightened by a masked mowu or juju. The mowu puts a reed between his jaws and talks like the spirit. The boy must shake hands with him. Then they converse in a friendly way about society and its needs.
No matter where you come from, as long as you have the identity, you are an Igbo man. The South East geo- political zone is just homeland. Ndigbo are found all over the globe from Delta to Rivers State of Nigeria.
Africa is full of the them. Visit Liberia, cross over to Sierra Leone or catch a flight to Gabon. Then you cannot miss Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. The Central African States of Congo Democratic Republic and the other Congo have Ndigbo in their midst.
In the Americas, you cannot ignore Ndigbo. They are in the United States. They inhabit Jamaica. They are heroes in Barbados, tough in Haiti and seen all over West Indies.
If you talk of Biafra, give it to Ndigbo of Delta State.
I HIGHLY recommend all Nigerians and even AFRICANS read this book. IT just came out and the author took his time to research all the official accounts of BRITISH actions in Nigeria from 1800 to 1960 and beyond.
A careful review of these details will tell you that Nigerian nationalities have been focused on the wrong enemy. The untold gruesome bloodshed and brutality that supported colonisation has NEVER been reported publicly before this book.
The massacre of hundreds of thousands of Brave Local Nigerian peoples who resisted the British White man's invasions, which were clandestinely covered up publicly but private secret records have been lying there in the Parliamentary debates, British military correspondence,...
Emeka Ojukwu's mum, Madam Eunice Ekene (popularly known as Ma Biggar) initially married an European: an Engineer called Mr Tom Biggar who lived and worked in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria in 1923
Mr Biggar was holidaying in Europe and left his wife and...
daughter, Esther Biggar, in Nigeria for few months and Mr Biggar's wife (Ojukwu's mum) was travelling with her pretty daughter and met Sir Louis Ojukwu (Emeka's father) who owned the transport company she travelled with.
One thing led to another, Ojukwu's mother and his rich father had an affair that produced Emeka Ojukwu.
Some accounts said that Engr Biggar and Sir Loius Ojukwu were friends and Sir Loius Ojukwu had merely taken advantage of Engr Biggar's wife during his absence.