11.   By reducing financing costs and better insulating their businesses, companies are putting themselves on surer footing.

12.   By the same token, indexed home mortgages would effectively link financing costs to housing prices, because both would tend to rise and fall with inflation.

13.   Confidence that interest rates will remain low buoyed shares of major borrowers, which stand to benefit from low financing costs.

14.   Confidence that these key economic indicators will restrain the Bank of Japan from raising interest rates buoyed shares of major borrowers which stand to benefit low financing costs.

15.   Electric utility stocks, whose large financing costs rise along with bond yields, also fell.

16.   Family income rose in the July to September period, as did financing costs and sticker prices.

17.   Financing costs on a new car will go up.

18.   Firms lower financing costs selling the preferred because they can deduct dividends paid to investors on their tax returns.

19.   Firms lower financing costs selling these preferred shares because they can deduct dividends paid to investors on their tax returns.

20.   For consumers, the rate cuts will lead to lower financing costs for autos, credit card purchases and other consumer loans.