91.   Investment-grade companies held off selling new bonds even as Treasury yields declined, lowering borrowing costs for companies, which set borrowing rates according to the yield.

92.   It also could lead to a lower borrowing rate for the firm selling the securities.

93.   Investors are concerned that higher borrowing rates could erode profit margins of less stables corporations, making it more difficult for them to repay their debt obligations.

94.   Issuers are eager to sell debt, even though they expect interest rates to hold steady, to secure low borrowing rates.

95.   Issuers of inflation-indexed bonds are able to get lower borrowing rates than on conventional bonds.

96.   Issues such as the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California may sell larger offerings if borrowing rates drop further.

97.   It also could lead to a lower borrowing rate for the firm selling securities.

98.   Inter-bank borrowing rates had surged jumped to deny speculators access to the Hong Kong dollars they needed to bet against the currency.

99.   Interbank borrowing rates have doubled in the past month as the HKMA fended off attacks on the Hong Kong dollar, which is pegged firmly to the U.S. dollar.

100.   Investors are concern that higher borrowing rates could erode profit margins of less stables corporations, making it more difficult for them to repay their debt obligations.