Wesfarmers (BBB+/Baa1) is seeking a minimum of A$250 million (US$208.55 million) in a new five-year domestic medium-term note (MTN) transaction it launched on September 3. The deal, which has indicative pricing of 275 basis points over swap and is expected to price by September 4, will be the issuer's first public domestic bond transaction since it sold A$250 million of three-year paper in June 2005.