Telstra prices AUD new benchmark transaction [UPDATE]

Telstra Corporation (Telstra) (A/A2/A) priced a new fixed rate benchmark issue into the domestic market on November 8. According to KangaNews data the company's last issue into the public domestic market was in May 2011, when it priced a nine-year transaction for A$150 million (US$155.1 million) at 160 basis points over semi-quarterly coupon-matched asset swap.