1.   AMD, a Sunnyvale, California-based maker of computer microchips, said it expects to sell the notes in late August or early September.

2.   Analysts expect AK Steel to sell notes.

3.   Bennett then sold that note to a longtime business associate from Long Island named Neil Wager.

4.   Blum said he would consider selling longer-term notes because of the possible rate increase.

5.   Companies have been rushing to sell capital notes, also called trust preferred securities, before Congress acts on a proposal to eliminate tax benefits for issuers.

6.   Companies have been rushing to sell capital notes because they offer the tax treatment of bonds and the capital treatment of stocks.

7.   Farmland sells the notes, mostly to individual investors, to raise money.

8.   He has also sold notes with medium-term maturities to buy bonds with longer maturities.

9.   In some cases, the trusts sell notes to the public backed by the jets.

10.   Insurance companies have traditionally increased capital through retained earnings, and more recently by selling surplus notes, which are similar to preferred stock.