Mediagazer: CBS selling $600 million in new bonds (rbr.com)

3:25 AM ET, October 5, 2010

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CBS selling $600 million in new bonds — CBS Corporation is doing some reworking of its balance sheet. As it announced a tender to buy back $250 million of its outstanding debt due in 2012, it is also selling $600 million of new bonds that won't come due until future decades.

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