1.   Banco Popular is a net lender in the interbank market and sees its lending margins shrink as rates fall.

2.   But nine days later, Rep. Steve Largent, R-Okla., is scheduled to resign, meaning the margin will again shrink.

3.   Commerzbank AG doubled operating profit but said lending margins had shrunk, raising concerns about longer-term prospects.

4.   Garrity said he expects the margin to shrink for the balance of the year.

5.   If crude prices increase, he said, those margins will simply shrink without inflating retail gas prices.

6.   Insurers in Europe, meanwhile, are uniting as competition heightens and margins shrink.

7.   It said that if the SEC mandated a change, gross margins would shrink.

8.   Its margins likely will shrink if it lowers prices, he said.

9.   Margins are also shrinking due to competition, McCraw said last month.

10.   Most experts think the margin will shrink by election day, but no one predicts anything but a Labor victory.