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For Immediate Release January
12,
2007
FREDDIE MAC PRICES NEW $4 BILLION TWO-YEAR AND $3 BILLION 10-YEAR REFERENCE NOTES® SECURITIESMcLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) announced today that it priced its new 5.00% $4 billion two-year USD Reference Notes® security due on January 16, 2009. The issue, CUSIP number 3137EAAL3, was priced at 99.889 to yield 5.059%, or 17.5 basis points more than two-year U.S. Treasury Notes. Freddie Mac also announced that it priced its new 5.00% $3 billion 10-year USD Reference Notes security due on February 16, 2017. The issue, CUSIP number 3137EAAM1, was priced at 99.255 to yield 5.096%, or 32.5 basis points more than 10-year U.S. Treasury Notes. Both Reference Notes securities issues will settle on January 16, 2007. The new two-year Reference Notes security was offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and RBS Greenwich Capital. The new 10-year Reference Notes security was offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by Banc of America Securities, J.P. Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. An application was made to list the issues on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Including today's offerings, Freddie Mac has approximately $235 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 nearly four million renters in America. ###
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