Traders use stock loan desks to access securities to buy or to borrow to sell short.
But meanwhile, it may have to borrow to fund operations, complains Buffalo President Harold Jackson.
"Sometimes I have to borrow to get to the next payday, " Ms. Akter said.
When you borrow to invest, you must choose between an adjustable or a fixed-rate mortgage.
As the business cycle turns up, companies draw down cash and borrow to finance increasing investment.
Soon enough, most Japanese had to borrow to afford a stake in Japan Inc.
His preference: pay shareholders more for holding the stock, and borrow to do so if necessary.
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Second, people are much more likely to borrow to buy a home than to buy shares.
It will more than double the amount some small business owners can borrow to grow their companies.
Bear Stearns didn't say how much money it would need to borrow to stop the liquidity drain.
In turn, this makes the incentive to save slightly lower, the incentive to borrow to invest slightly higher.
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Even if there were a desire to borrow to finance spending, banks might be unwilling to meet it.
Increasing income inequality meant that consumers found it necessary to borrow to undertake what should have been affordable purchases.
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The bottom line: with improved cash flow, many small businesses don't need to borrow to make payroll, he adds.
But when recovery seems more assured, firms will want to borrow to beef up inventories and buy new equipment.
Most state and local governments are not allowed to borrow to cover shortfalls.
Why borrow to expand if you cannot pay the employees you have now?
Now I recall talking about the relatively high rate Barclays was paying to borrow to people in government and Whitehall.
The British king could declare war on anyone he cared to, but only Parliament could tax or borrow to fund it.
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But economies grow faster when individuals and companies borrow to make purchases.
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As the banks have been reluctant to lend ever since the 1994-95 crisis, farmers cannot borrow to buy new equipment and seeds.
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"Regulators are already allowing utilities to do this, " Kagan notes, by letting holding companies borrow to buy overseas utilities and cable television firms.
The less money the government borrows, the more that is available for the private sector to borrow to increase production and create jobs.
Moreover, if people want to borrow to buy shares, raising margin requirements would probably send them to the plentiful other sources of credit.
Haiti also had to borrow to pay crippling reparations to France, the former colonial power: the loans were not paid off until 1947.
So, government should go and borrow to spend, doing the dissaving that no one else will, to get the economy out of that hole.
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There is Wonga, which is similar to ZestCash, and Billfloat, which limits the use of funds one can borrow to bill repayment.
They are looking around because the way that people borrow to pay for their homes has a huge impact on consumer spending (and savings).
As we already know, the US just raised the debt ceiling so it can continue to borrow to run the nation and service its debt.
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