borrowing
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By raising borrowing costs, they slow the economy and ease demand for goods, services and labor.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Higher borrowing costs, service charges, leasehold and shared ownership complications have made them more expensive and complicated to own, damaging their reputation.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Lower rates would help curb borrowing costs for many of the AI-linked projects that propelled the stock market to records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
On Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in over three years, while the European Central Bank also increased its borrowing costs earlier this month.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
This, then, was how Voldemort had tested the defenses surrounding the Horcrux: by borrowing a disposable creature, a house-elf...
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Remarkably, these offers continue to exist even while interest rates rise across the rest of the economy on both borrowings and savings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
If that happens, he said, it could raise bills for electric customers since the utility may have to pay a higher interest rate for new borrowings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Among the red flags that Di Mattia is tracking are the stock-market performances of companies whose borrowings are tied to AI hopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
But each of the funds said they had ample liquidity to handle the payouts, with cash coming from loan repayments, fund borrowings, and new investment inflows.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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