High cash prices push Mubadala into 'cheap' starting spread

Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's state owned investment group, is preparing to price a $750m eight year dollar bond on Wednesday afternoon. Its starting spread struck some debt bankers as cheap. But high cash prices on Mubadala's outstanding paper have kept its secondary spreads higher than fair value, and bankers on the new bond argued they had to take this into account.