91.   Higher borrowing costs hurt company profits and make fixed income securities more alluring than equities to many investors.

92.   Higher corporate borrowing costs and steeper interest rates on credit cards can pinch company profits and depress stocks by slowing investment and spending.

93.   Higher corporate borrowing costs and steeper interest rates on credit cards can squeeze company profits, and depress stocks as a result, by slowing investment and spending.

94.   Higher interest rates can crimp companies profits.

95.   Higher rates cut into companies profits by making it more expensive for them to borrow money.

96.   Higher rates raise corporate borrowing costs and can eat into company profits.

97.   Higher rates raise the cost of financing business, and also cut into the corporate and consumer spending that drives company profits.

98.   In a few months, supply will taper off and prices will rise, squeezing company profits.

99.   In addition to making bonds more attractive than stocks, higher rates can reduce company profits by increasing finance costs and reducing sales by making consumer credit more expensive.

100.   In BUENOS AIRES, stocks may rise in coming days as robust economic growth promises to boost company profits.