Mich - soaring and up 17% today. Any idea why? Look at MDT now! Amazing.
Sydney - Friday - August 1: (RWE Aust Business News) - Babcock & Brown Japan Property Trust (ASX:BJT) has monetised and partially reset its capital hedge portfolio realising a net $18.8 million in cash and has extended the tenor of its capital hedges. The capital hedge portfolio has been reset by unwinding the pre-existing capital hedges and establishing new capital hedges for approximately 20.4 per cent of net investment in Japanese assets (previously 39pc). The reset capital hedge portfolio is at the minimum of BJT's 20-40pc capital hedge policy range and it is anticipated that this level may be increased in the medium term. The tenor of the hedges has been extended to 5.6 years (previously 3.6 years). No changes have been made to the distribution hedging. Following the monetisation of the capital hedges, BJT will have approximately $66 million of available cash, which will be available to repay a $56.5m debt facility maturing in December 2008 in the event this facility is not refinanced. BJT has no other refinancing requirements until March 2010. Cash distributions to unitholders will not be impacted by the reset through the use of a range of capital management initiatives available, such as the further buy back of BJT units, use of cash from the monetisation and/or increasing the level of capital hedging over time. BJT will provide December 2008 distribution guidance at the time of the June 2008 results release.
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