1.   An agreement is expected to send bond yields lower by curbing the supply of securities the Treasury sells to finance annual deficits.

2.   An expanding trade gap hurts the dollar because the currency must be sold to finance the excess of imports.

3.   An agreement would send bond yields lower by curbing the supply of securities the Treasury sells to finance annual deficits.

4.   A large trade gap hurts the dollar because the currency must be sold to finance the surfeit of imports.

5.   A shrinking trade gap helps the dollar because it means less dollars must be sold to finance the excess of imports.

6.   A school of iconography, now housed in the nave, produces other paintings that are sold to finance renovations.

7.   Countries with current account deficits often see their currencies suffer, since they must be sold to finance the gap.

8.   Deficit-financing bonds are sold to finance activities other than construction, such as computer purchases.

9.   Fighting to prevent even more money from leaving, the Russian government last week drastically hiked interest rates on the bonds that is sells to finance its debt.