Sovereigns usually prefer auctions because they result in lower borrowing costs.
In addition, they may push up borrowing costs and slow economic growth.
The agreement should ease Greece's borrowing costs, but does less to address its long-term debt pile.
Treasurer Wayne Swan has urged banks not to boost borrowing costs by more than central bank increases, calling CBA's move a “cynical cash grab.
In normal times, you could argue that this policy provides benefits to the rest of the world, by reducing borrowing costs (although given what we did with those capital inflows, maybe not).
In the best case, borrowing costs could rise.
As a rule, a lower credit rating means higher borrowing costs for debtor nations.
It also helps that borrowing costs to pay for these super-expensive homes is at record lows.
Instead, this week it will deal with anonymous quotes as it tries to raise funds in a Wednesday bond auction amid increasing borrowing costs on its debt.
The same applies to countries: making some claims senior to others would not lead to lower average borrowing costs, owing to the higher cost of private financing after it is reduced to junior debt.
The reform announcement also coincided with a rise of Spain’s borrowing costs to record levels.
In that environment, a rate cut would have signalling value but would not rapidly translate into actual borrowing costs.
That crisis, too, had its origins in invention with a benign aim: the packaging of mortgages for use as securities for bonds was intended to reduce borrowing costs and disperse risk.
And yet during that period, America's borrowing costs have fallen.
International investors began to target Ireland as a weak link in the euro zone, raising its borrowing costs to unsustainable levels.
The question at hand is whether and how the cost of rebuilding might add so much to that debt as to worry investors and raise borrowing costs, precipitating some kind of debt crisis.
Where financial institutions can securitize remittance deposits, they can expand access to capital in developing countries and lower borrowing costs.
Even Britain and America could face sharply higher borrowing costs.
With borrowing costs once again spiralling this week, Mr Zapatero was forced to postpone his summer holiday to cope with the crisis.
If they let finances slip, bond markets will exact a penalty in higher borrowing costs, as they have done in recent months.
The last 2 years have learned that when borrowing cost reach 7%... it is game over.
Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.
The credit crunch saw borrowing costs blow out to high levels.
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