1.   Also, some traders expect that feedlot operators, faced with surging prices for young animals and tight margins, could slow their expansion, reducing supplies.

2.   And it has slowed expansion in Canada.

3.   As benchmark lending rates rise, so do business costs, crimping profits and slowing expansion.

4.   But to improve cash flow, the bookseller plans to slow its expansion.

5.   Commercial paper funds day-to-day operations, and as benchmark lending rates rise, so do business expenses, crimping profits and slowing expansion.

6.   Even the government and the Bank of Japan acknowledged the tax increases will slow the expansion during the first few months of the fiscal year.

7.   For example, an interest rate hike, intended to slow expansion of the U.S. economy, might send Ecuador into recession.

8.   Further slowing the expansion of the Internet user base in Latin America has been the regional economic crisis.

9.   Higher rates can cool economic growth by raising borrowing costs, slowing corporate expansion and decreasing the desirability of owning stock.

10.   Home Depot Inc. said it is slowing its expansion in Canada by half and delaying its entrance into Mexico.