THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 CAIRO – Central bank’s monetary policy committee meets. COMING EVENTS SUNDAY, JULY 5 CAIRO – Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Economy MinisterWaldemar Pawlak arrives for three-day visit to discuss economicand trade ties with Egypt JULY 7-9 CAIRO – Regional Africa meeting for Interpol. This diary is updated daily New listings or amendments aremarked *. All events/times provisional and in GMT (local time isGMT +3 for Egypt and Sudan). The issue is guaranteed by the Commonwealth government andcarries a rating of AAA Lead managers were RBS, UBS andWestpac ($1=1.241 Australian Dollar) (Reporting by Wayne Cole).
July 2 (Reuters) – Korea Gas Corporation (036460.KS) *Moody’s assigns A2 rating to Kogas’ US$ notes. The A$400 million of floating rate notes notes fetched 65basis points over three-month BBSW. The A$350 million of fixedrate notes carried a coupon of 5.5 percent and priced at99.724, to yield 5.59 percent Settlement is on July 9, whilethe notes mature on Oct 22, 2012. (For the latest Australia and New Zealand bond news, doubleclick on [AU/CRD] and then double click on the ID number)SYDNEY, July 2 (Reuters) – Bank of Queensland (BOQ.AX),Australia’s seventh-biggest lender, has priced A$750 million($604 million) of fixed and floating rate 2012 bonds, saidjoint lead UBS. The transaction will be issued from the ING Bank(Australia) Ltd A$10.0 billion Debt Instrument Programme (Reporting by Wayne Cole).
MOSCOW, July 2 (Reuters) – Russian carmaker Avtovaz(AVAZ.MM): Russia * Reports 2008 net loss of 24.7 billion roubles ($796million) against a profit of 3.7 billion roubles in 2007 * Revenues up 2.4 percent to 192.1 billion roubles(Reporting by Anton Doroshev, Writing by Toni Vorobyova) Russia. HSBC BankAustralia Ltd, RBC Capital and Westpac Banking Corporationacted as joint lead managers ING Wholesale Banking was Co-Manager. (For the latest Australia and New Zealand bond news, doubleclick on [AU/CRD] and then double click on the ID number) SYDNEY, July 2 (Reuters) – ING Bank (Australia) has pricedan A$1.5 billion ($1.2 billion) 3.5-year domestic floating ratenote issue, guaranteed by the Australian government, the jointleads said on Thursday The notes mature on Feb 11, 2013 and are priced at 3-monthBBSW plus 55 basis points Settlement is on July 10. LE BOURGET – French air accident investigation agency (BEA)holds press conference on Air France crash (1300 GMT).—————————————————————-.