1.   Higher U.K. bond yields following the BSE scare have permitted the company to cut the cost of undoing an ill-advised swap agreement.

2.   Interest rate swap agreements are, in some respects, similar to stock futures, themselves a derivative.

3.   Niedringhaus has placed a bet on higher rates through a series of swaps agreements.

4.   That made it possible for Stakis to cut the cost of undoing what turned out to be an ill-advised swap agreement.

5.   Tardieu allegedly executed the swap agreements at the urging of Salomon Vice President Gilles Albou before Tardieu left Seita, the suit said.

6.   Tardieu executed the swap agreements at the urging of Salomon Vice President Gilles Albou before Tardieu left Seita, the suit said.

7.   The asset swap agreement ends months of talks between Kirch and Canal Plus.

8.   The costs stem mainly from the charge to the company for exiting interest rate swap agreements with banks.

9.   Under the swap agreements, PNC agreed to pay a fixed interest rate and receive a variable rate.

10.   A series of currency swap agreements that Asian nations signed over the past year could eventually become a formal Asian Monetary Fund, officials said Friday.