borrowed funds in a sentence

Examples

1. The firm's Salomon Brothers securities unit wagers its $ 5 billion in equity capital, along with borrowed funds, in the bond markets.
2. Promus recently agreed to pay more than 21 percent on borrowed funds to finance the construction of a casino in New Orleans.
3. That is because Robertson has been slowly liquidating his holdings over the last 18 months and reducing the fund's use of borrowed funds.
4. As rates climb, of course, the worst-hit businesses are those that depend a lot on borrowed funds, like banks and highly leveraged concerns.
5. According to the text of the proposed legislation, funding for the bank would be taken from borrowed funds not to exceed one percent.
6. This is how it works : The university makes a loan to a graduate student, either with its own money or borrowed funds.
7. Profits at banks and brokerage stocks depend far more on the spreads between what banks pay for borrowed funds and earn in interest.
8. The Spanish summer season also attracts investment flows from hedge-fund investors, market participants who place bets in assets with borrowed funds, analysts said.
9. First was the so-called yen carry trade, in which investors borrowed funds in Japan at microscopic interest rates and bought Treasuries with the proceeds.
10. And these brokers, encouraged by the fee structure at Morgan Stanley, subjected their customers to high-risk strategies involving the heavy use of borrowed funds.