91.   By showing strong numbers, its stock would rise and the company would be able to raise more cash.

92.   By divesting itself of Agfa, Bayer evidently hopes to give the unit the mobility it needs to reinvest its profits and raise cash.

93.   By expanding its partnership with Citic through a share sale, the airline will improve its relationship with the Chinese government and raise cash to expand its business.

94.   Commodity prices fell as a plunge in the U.S. stock market undermined confidence in the economy and forced traders to raise cash by selling other assets.

95.   Concern over the financial health of Japanese banks had made it more expensive for them to raise cash.

96.   Concern over their financial health, however, makes it harder for them to raise cash, tightening lending in the market and making it more expensive.

97.   Corporations have been liquidating parts of their vast shareholdings in order to raise cash and pad their bottom lines during the economic slowdown, traders say.

98.   Corporate investors have been net sellers as they raise cash to pad their bottom lines and dispose of bad loans.

99.   Crispin said Vickers was unlikely to buy the business until it has raised cash from planned disposals.

100.   Concern over their financial health, however, made it harder for them to raise cash, tightening lending in the market and making it more expensive.