71.   Rising rates raise borrowing costs for consumers and corporations -- potentially hurting profits.

72.   Stocks followed bond prices lowers on fears that higher rates would raise borrowing costs and cut into profits.

73.   The high rates have raised concern about slowing economic growth, traders said.

74.   The plummeting crime rate raised expectations and created statistical lows that will serve to highlight any future increases.

75.   These trades will be reversed, generating demand for yen, if traders think higher Japanese rates will raise the cost of financing such bets, analysts said.

76.   While making peso-denominated investments more attractive, higher rates raise borrowing costs of companies and crimp earnings.

77.   Computer makers that buy parts from Silicon Valley may have to pay more if electric rates raise the cost of business.

78.   Denton said he especially was concerned about the impact on small, community-based nonprofit organizations that need low rates to raise funds for their activities.

79.   Denton pointed to the impact on small, community-based nonprofit organizations that need low rates to raise funds for their activities.

80.   Longer term, higher rates would raise corporate borrowing costs and erode profits, which would eventually lower stock valuations, analysts said.