71.   Traders took the comment as a signal the bank may raise its securities repurchase, or repo, rate again soon, and bought marks.

72.   To make up for smaller spreads, banks are raising old fees and coming up with new ones.

73.   Traders said Hong Kong banks may raise prime lending rates -- interests banks charge their best customers -- following the recent increase in interbank rates.

74.   When the Fed raises interest rates, it usually causes banks to raise the cost of home mortgages, auto loans and credit-card debt.

75.   When the home loan banks raise money from bond issues, they invest it until they need to relend the money to member institutions.

76.   Concerns about their financial health have made it harder for Japanese banks to raise funds in overseas markets.

77.   Ending a two-year run of rate reductions, the bank raised its key lending rate in March and again in mid-April.

78.   Economists say the bank will probably raise rates later this year to counter inflation as the European economy picks up speed.

79.   He said he did not know how much the bank was raising.

80.   If the bank raises interest rates, or if the euro strengthens, that could push inflation down by cooling the economy and making imports cheaper.