borrowing
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The 10-year benchmark, which has a broad impact on borrowing costs across the economy, rose as high as 5.14%, an intraday level last seen in July 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
When the Treasury market gets swept up in selling, yields increase, which pushes up borrowing costs for households, businesses and governments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The 10-year benchmark, which has a broad impact on borrowing costs across the economy, rose as high as 5.14% Wednesday, an intraday level last seen in July 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Research economist Nick Ridpath said: "Both higher borrowing costs and higher inflation make life harder for a chancellor who is looking to bring down borrowing and to spend more on government priorities."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some inherited letters or signs may simply be dropped, when the sounds that those letters represent in the lending language do not exist in the borrowing language.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The club's latest quarterly figures showed total borrowings of £1.29bn, including outstanding transfer fees.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
This follows the failure of last week’s big idea, which was to pay down some of the borrowings with…er…borrowed money.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Those obligations are growing faster than traditional “capex,” which totaled about $600 billion over the past year they reported, and were about triple what the companies owe under their outstanding leases and long-term borrowings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
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
