41.   Rising interest rates can hurt company profits by increasing corporate financing costs and dampening consumer demand.

42.   Rising mortgage rates might be expected to take some of the house-buying steam out of that expanding work force, and financing costs have certainly risen recently.

43.   Rising yields mean more corporate financing costs.

44.   Shares of electric utilities, whose financing costs rise along with interest rates, and financial companies, whose profit margins narrow, fell as rates rose.

45.   Since rising yields drive up corporate financing costs, that prompted concern the Dow Jones Industrial Average will fall in trading Monday, traders said.

46.   That, combined with higher overnight financing costs in Japan, would make the trade less attractive.

47.   The arrangement also let Krispy Kreme keep the financing cost off its balance sheet.

48.   The additional financing costs will total several hundred thousand dollars a year, said A.J. Slusark, a Baltimore Gas official.

49.   The charge will cover the premium to be paid for early repayment of its Series A and Series C debentures, writing off deferred exchange losses and financing costs.

50.   The economy could use the stimulus of lower financing costs.