Williams Companies (WMB) loses 17 cents to $31.45 and morning trades on the natural gas producer include multi-exchange sweeps of Aug 28 puts at the 25-cent asking price. 14,000 contracts now traded against 46,153 in open interest and ISEE data hint at closing customer buyers. Aug 27 puts and 35 calls on WMB are also seeing interest and implied volatility in the options is moving up 2 percent to 41 ahead of earnings, tomorrow afternoon.