61.   The higher rates hurt stocks by cramping profits and forcing companies to spend more to finance their businesses.

62.   The increase was due mostly to expansion of the mortgage financing business, the filing said.

63.   The lower bond yields boosted utility and telephone companies, which borrow massively to finance their businesses.

64.   The ratio measures how dependent a company is on debt to finance its business.

65.   The remainder would go to finance small businesses.

66.   The Vancouver, British Columbia, company provides cellular telephone service in China and needs to raise money to finance its business, said Chief Financial Officer Peter McPherson.

67.   They also make it more expensive for companies to finance their businesses and for individuals to use credit cards.

68.   They had borrowed dollars to finance their businesses, rather than borrowing baht, because interest rates in dollars were lower.

69.   They included educational opportunities and loans that helped him buy a home loan and finance his business.

70.   This can be remedied, the report said, not by larger government programs but by reorganizing how the businesses are financed.