51. Higher borrowing costs make it harder for bank customers to repay their overdue loans and leave consumers with less disposable income. 52. Higher interest rates could chill new construction activity and discourage bank customers from seeking new credit. 53. Higher interest rates might prevent bank customers from repaying overdue loans or attempt to arrange new credit, which will hurt earnings. 54. If borrowing costs rise, bank customers may not seek new loans and companies could refrain from initiating new building projects, analysts said. 55. If local interest rates rise, current bank customers may find it harder to repay their loans and new customers may refrain from seeking new credit. 56. In all three holdups, the suspects terrorized bank customers and officials by opening fire with automatic weapons. 57. In addition, bank customers themselves are more likely to remain with Fleet. 58. In recent months, the program was advertised quietly among private bank customers. 59. Indeed, that is what some bank customers vow they will do. 60. Its provisions ignored the millions of Mexican workers who are too poor to qualify as bank customers, analysts said. |