Freddie Mac Prices New $3.5 Billion Five-Year Reference Notes® Security

MCLEAN, Va., June 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) announced today that it priced its new 1.00% five-year USD Reference Notes^® security due on July 28, 2017.  The issue, CUSIP number 3137EADJ5, was priced at 99.748 to yield 1.051%, or 29.5 basis points more than five-year U.S. Treasury Notes.  The issue will settle on Monday, June 25, 2012.

The new five-year Reference Notes security was offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by BNP Paribas Securities, Corp., Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan Chase.  An application was made to list the issue on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 9, 2012; all other reports Freddie Mac filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ('Exchange Act") since December 31, 2011, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K; and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Exchange Act, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K.

Freddie Mac's press releases sometimes contain forward-looking statements. A description of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in these and other forward-looking statements can be found in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, filed with the SEC and available on the Investor Relations page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors and the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov.

Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Today Freddie Mac is making home possible for one in four homebuyers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. www.FreddieMac.com.

SOURCE Freddie Mac

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