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Subsequent Events | SUBSEQUENT EVENTS In August 2019, Agilent executed treasury lock agreements for $250 million in connection with future interest payments related to potential financing transactions in the fourth fiscal quarter. The treasury lock contracts will be designated as cash flow hedges and will settle on or before October 16, 2019. On August 7, 2019, we entered into an amendment to the credit agreement, which provides for a $500 million short-term loan facility that was used in full to complete the BioTek acquisition noted below. On August 16, 2019, Agilent elected to call for full redemption of its $500 million outstanding 2020 senior notes due July 15, 2020 and a notice of redemption has been sent to all registered holders of the notes. The redemption price for the notes is equal to the present value of the remaining scheduled principal and interest payments on the notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the redemption date which is September 17, 2019. On August 23, 2019 we completed the acquisition of privately-owned BioTek, a leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative life science instrumentation for $1.165 billion. The financial results of BioTek will be included within our financial results from the date of the close in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019.

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