India New Issue-HPCL to issue 5-year bonds - bankers

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MUMBAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - India's Hindustan Petroleum Corp plans to raise at least 8 billion rupees ($96.61 million) through the sale of bonds maturing in five years, three merchant bankers said on Monday. The company has invited bids from bankers and investors on Wednesday, they said. The bonds are rated AAA by CRISIL and ICRA and the issue will be settled on Thursday. The issue has a greenshoe option to retain an additional 10 billion rupees. In December, the company had raised 7.5 billion rupees through bonds maturing in 10 years and four months at a coupon of 7.54%.



($1 = 82.8030 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Bhakti Tambe and Dharamraj Dhutia; Editing by Sohini Goswami)

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