21.   Higher interest rates weigh on bonds by making it more expensive for financial institutions to borrow funds in the money market and invest in bonds.

22.   Higher rates also make it more costly for companies to borrow funds.

23.   Higher domestic interest rates make it more expensive for companies to borrow funds.

24.   HUD broke precedent, the Journal reported, by permitting Energy Capital to be repaid ahead of the federal government if energy efficiency firms that borrowed the funds defaulted.

25.   However, she did not explain why a candidate who was loaning money to his campaign would also have to borrow funds from the campaign.

26.   In addition, profit-sharing plans permit the exclusion of part-time employees, and their funds can be borrowed.

27.   In other cases, banks are finding that their credit lines have been trimmed, so that they cannot borrow funds abroad at any price.

28.   In the wake of those failures, some small financial institutions had difficulty borrowing funds from the money market, but not anymore, Homma said.

29.   Investors have taken advantage of the rates to borrow funds in yen.

30.   Japanese banks are being charged more to borrow funds in Europe than similarly rated U.S. and European banks.