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For Immediate Release April
04,
2007
FREDDIE MAC PRICES $1 BILLION REOPENING OF 4.75% TWO-YEAR REFERENCE NOTES SECURITYMcLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) announced today that it auctioned a $1 billion reopening of its 4.75% two-year USD Reference Notes® security due on March 5, 2009. The stop yield for the issue, CUSIP 3137EAAQ2, was 4.833%, priced at 99.84508 or approximately 25.0 basis points more than two-year U.S. Treasury Notes. The bid-to-cover ratio was 3.299 to 1. After the reopening, which was conducted via an Internet-based auction, the total outstanding size of the 4.75% two-year Reference Notes security will be $4 billion. The issue will settle on April 5, 2007. An application was also made to list the issue on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Including today's reopening, Freddie Mac has issued $21 billion of Reference Notes securities during 2007 and has approximately $238 billion in Reference Notes and Reference Bonds® securities outstanding. This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy any of these securities. Any such offering will be made only by an offering circular and pricing supplement. 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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