51.   Higher interest rates can restrain the rate of economic activity by increasing the cost of borrowing money.

52.   Higher interest rates can reduce company profits by boosting cost of borrowing money and crimping consumer spending on credit.

53.   Higher interest rates could erode corporate profits by making borrowing money more expensive and slowing economic growth.

54.   Higher interest rates increase the cost of borrowing money, crimping profits of borrowers and lenders alike.

55.   Higher interest rates raise the cost of borrowing money, crimping lending profits for financial institutions.

56.   Higher rates raise the cost of borrowing money and tend to make stocks relatively less attractive than fixed-income investments.

57.   Higher rates raise the cost of borrowing money to hold gold and boost returns of interest-paying assets.

58.   Hilton likely will pay for the Bally notes by borrowing money at a lower interest rate, analysts said.

59.   Higher rates increase the costs of borrowing money and tend to make less-risky investments, like bank deposits, more attractive than stocks.

60.   High interest rates are bad news for companies because they increase the cost of borrowing money, stunting corporate growth.