AIG Bailout Borrowing Hits $92.5 Billion

AIG's (AIG Quote) borrowings under the federal government's bailout lending plan has reached $92.5 billion from the total $143.7 billion in facilities available.

AIG has reduced its $122.8 billion federal lending facility by a further $2.3 billion to $81.2 billion as of Wednesday, according to figures released Thursday by the Federal Reserve and by AIG insiders. The total paydown in the past two weeks totals $9.1 billion.

AIG's stock closed Thursday down 9.2% at $1.87. The insurance giant is scheduled to report earnings after the market close Monday.

A breakdown provided by AIG Public Relations Director Joe Norton indicates that the core $85 billion facility is now at $61.3 billion, down $4.5 billion from last week. The securities lending facility is at $19.9 billion, up $2.2 billion.

Although he was unable to provide details of the amounts borrowed under the new commercial paper funding facility (CPFF) program, Norton said the reduction "is due primarily to access to the CPFF that allowed AIG to make voluntary pre-payments under the $85 billion facility." Norton confirmed that the amounts cannot be directly related due to fees involved in accessing the CPFF. Assuming that the CPFF borrowing is somewhat similar to the payoffs, AIG has at least $11.3 billion of the $20.9 billion facility being used.

AIG is widely expected to announce a significant loss when it reports quarterly results next week, and uncertainty about the announcement has the market volume of shares sharply down from their 10-day average of roughly 98 million shares per day to 69 million shares today.