Williams offers to swap securities to cut debt
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Williams Cos. Inc. (WMB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is offering to exchange up to 43.9 million of its Feline PACS securities in a bid to reduce its overall debt, the natural gas company said on Friday.
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These Treasury securities can help hedge against inflation -- sometimes.
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The lender said it would offer refinancing or modifications on loans whose interest rate is set to adjust by the end of 2008.
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The German government is considering asking publicly owned regional state banks or 'Landesbanken' to repay past subsidies as a way of bringing down the German public deficit, Finance Minister Hans Eichel said.
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Holders of a once-arcane and now troubled form of short-term debt may now find it converted in to notes with maturity dates measured in years.
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Sallie Mae  said on Wednesday it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory convertible securities to help pay off derivatives contracts that amounted to a bet that its share price would keep increasing.
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Wall Street is looking for a rate cut by the Federal Reserve Bank to help bolster the United States economy and ease problems caused by tightening credit availability.
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Hopes that interest rates have peaked were fuelled today by news that the Bank of England this month began considering the case for a cut in the cost of borrowing.
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US central bank chief hints at interest rate cut to ease credit crisis.
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Delta Air Lines Inc. announced Wednesday that its offer to exchange unsecured notes for secured bonds fell short of a company goal, but that enough investors had tendered their short-term securities for a debt exchange to occur.
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Delta Air Lines Inc., struggling to  cut costs to avert bankruptcy, said on Thursday it was amending  its offer to exchange up to $680 million worth of its  outstanding $2.6 billion of unsecured debt, asking holders to  submit tenders by Oct. 26.
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The Treasuryâs schedule of financing this week includes an auction of new three- and six-month bills on Tuesday and an auction of four-week bills on Wednesday.
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Delta Air Lines (DAL:NYSE - news - research) wants to give bondholders more time to think about trading in some $2.6 billion of unsecured debt for $680 million worth of new secured notes.
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The Treasuryâs schedule of financing this week include todayâs regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow.
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Sallie Mae  said on Wednesday  it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory  convertible securities to help pay off derivatives contracts  that amounted to a bet that its share price would keep  increasing.
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The Miami Dolphins have asked Ricky Williams to return &#36;8.6 million they say the running back owes the team because he has decided to retire.
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Bankrupt brokerage Refco Inc.   RFXCQ.PK and its customers and creditors may resolve   differences over the terms of a repayment plan as soon as   Friday, a person close to the matter said on Wednesday.