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For Immediate Release January
11,
2008
FREDDIE MAC PRICES NEW $3 BILLION THREE-YEAR REFERENCE NOTES® SECURITYMcLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) announced today that it priced its new 3.250% $3 billion three-year USD Reference Notes® security due on February 25, 2011. The issue, CUSIP number 3137EABF5, was priced at 99.732 to yield 3.340%, or 67.5 basis points more than three-year U.S. Treasury Notes. The issue will settle on January 14, 2008. The new three-year Reference Notes security was offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase and UBS Investment Bank. An application was made to list the issue on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Including today’s offerings, 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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