Nissan Motor to Sell $500 Million in Auto Loan Bonds (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Nissan Motor Co. ’s finance unit plans to raise $500 million in the first sale of U.S. auto-loan bonds since U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the government would shift the focus of his financial-industry rescue package toward bolstering investment in consumer debt.

Russian Property Developer PIK Gets $262 Million Loan From VEB (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- PIK Group , Russia’s second-biggest property developer, received a $262 million loan from state development bank Vnesheconombank to refinance foreign debt.

Automakers' debt may be obstacle to federal loans (AP via Yahoo! News)
They'll park some corporate jets, cut executive pay and serve up concessions from the United Auto Workers, but Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and perhaps Chrysler LLC also will have to address massive debts to persuade a skeptical Congress to loan them money.

Comstock Homebuilding Companies Restructures $8.8 Million Debt With Bank of America (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
RESTON, Va., Dec. 1, 2008 -- Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries announced that it entered into loan modification agreements with Bank of America, N.A. with respect to approximately $8.8 million of the Company's debt.

General Growth Properties gets loan reprieve (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shopping-mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions with lenders.