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For Immediate Release January
11,
2008
FREDDIE MAC PRICES $1 BILLION REOPENING OF 4.125% FIVE-YEAR REFERENCE NOTES SECURITYMcLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) announced today that it auctioned a $1 billion reopening of its 4.125% five-year USD Reference Notes® security that matures on December 21, 2012. The stop yield for the issue, CUSIP number 3137EABE8, was 3.652%, priced at 102.116040 or approximately 53.6 basis points more than five-year U.S. Treasury Notes. The bid-to-cover ratio was 3.35 to 1. After the reopening, which was conducted via an Internet-based auction, the total outstanding size of the 4.125% five-year Reference Note will be $4 billion. The issue will settle on January 14, 2008. An application was made to list the issue on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Including today’s reopening, Freddie Mac has approximately $250 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 corporation established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac purchases single-family and multifamily 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 more than 50 million times, ensuring financing for one in six homebuyers and more than four million renters. ###
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