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For Immediate Release

May 01, 2006
Contact: corprel@freddiemac.com
or (703) 903-3933

 

FREDDIE MAC ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF TENDER OFFERS ON DEBT SECURITIES WITH EXPIRED OPTIONS

REVISED

McLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) today announced the preliminary results of the cash tender offers for the repurchase of a targeted group of European-style callable debt securities with expired options, which closed at 4 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 28, 2006. Any updates to the results of the tender offer will be available on Freddie Mac's Debt Securities Web page at www.FreddieMac.com/debt/auctionrepurch/tenders0406.html.

Freddie Mac repurchased a total of $7.1 billion of the following debt securities:

CUSIP / ISIN Title of Security Principal Amount Tendered Principal Amount Outstanding
Following Tender Offer
3128X3SM6/
US3128X3SM61
3.750% Debt Security due
August 3, 2007
$438,856,000  $1,138,149,000
3128X3TM5/
US3128X3TM52
3.375% Debt Security due
August 23, 2007
$155,595,000  $682,870,000 
3128X3VY6/
US3128X3VY62
3.300% Debt Security due
September 14, 2007
$248,102,000  $751,898,000 
3128X2J22/
US3128X2J224
2.875% Debt Security due
September 18, 2007
$4,670,000 $495,330,000
3128X3C76 3.520% MTN due
October 18, 2007
$985,000,000  $15,000,000
3128X3ZZ9 3.500% MTN due
October 19, 2007
$367,907,000  $378,593,000 
3128X3H55/
US3128X3H556
3.250% Debt Security due
November 2, 2007
$471,588,000  $1,376,034,000 
3128X3L50/
US3128X3L509
3.350% Debt Security due
November 9, 2007
$259,963,000 $265,037,000
3128X3N74/
US3128X3N745
3.550% Debt Security due
November 15, 2007
$999,812,000 $500,188,000
3128X0C64/
US3128X0C645
3.500% Debt Security due
February 13, 2008
$99,174,000  $330,391,000
3128X03N7/
US3128X03N79
3.500% Debt Security due
April 1, 2008
$172,336,000 $1,577,432,000 
3128X36N8/
US3128X36N88
4.300% Debt Security due
September 24, 2008
$112,825,000 $387,175,000
3128X2ME2/
US3128X2ME27
3.875% Debt Security due
January 12, 2009
$685,744,000  $1,664,256,000 
3128X2P90/
US3128X2P908
3.755% Debt Security due
March 18, 2009
$149,391,000  $453,763,000
3128X3SL8/
US3128X3SL88
4.375% Debt Security due
July 30, 2009
$290,177,000 $637,448,000
3128X3VA8/
US3128X3VA86
4.125% Debt Security due
September 1, 2009
$203,034,000 $1,676,805,000
3128X3K85/
US3128X3K857
4.125% Debt Security due
November 18, 2009
$229,874,000 $770,126,000
3128X33F8/
US3128X33F81
4.375% Debt Security due
January 25, 2010
$274,326,000 $662,174,000
3128X34W0/
US3128X34W06
4.250% Debt Security due
February 24, 2010
$81,575,000 $393,672,000
3128X35R0/
US3128X35R02
4.375% Debt Security due
March 1, 2010
$155,635,000 $844,365,000
3128X2EV3/
US3128X2EV34
4.750% Debt Security due
December 8, 2010
$286,321,000 $1,713,679,000
3128X2HT5/
US3128X2HT50
4.500% Debt Security due
December 16, 2010
$270,627,000 $666,473,000 
3128X2ZQ1/
US3128X2ZQ10
4.125% Debt Security due
February 24, 2011
$172,224,000 $1,815,426,000
Total   $7,114,756,000  

This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy any of these securities. Neither Freddie Mac, nor the lead manager, nor the co-dealer managers made any recommendation that any holder of the securities tender or refrain from tendering all or any portion of the principal amount of such holder's securities. Freddie Mac's securities are obligations of Freddie Mac only. The securities, including any interest or return of discount on the securities, are not guaranteed by and are neither debts nor obligations of the United States or any federal agency or instrumentality other than Freddie Mac. The tender offers were made only upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase [PDF102K] dated April 24, 2006.

Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned company established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac fulfills its mission by purchasing residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage-related securities and debt instruments in the capital markets. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than four million renters in America.

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