France Telecom gets ¥52.3bn from Samurai bonds

France Telecom SA raised ¥52.3 billion (Dh2.11bn) from the first Samurai bond sale by a European corporate this year as investor demand began to recover from Greece's debt crisis.

It sold ¥46.1bn of 1.23 per cent, five-year bonds priced to yield 52 basis points more than the yen swap rate, and ¥6.2bn of similar-maturity floating-rate notes yielding 67 basis points.