If you know you will need to carry a balance in order to repay your current debt or anticipated spending, consider a low interest rate credit card.

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When other world interest rates fell, carry trade investors bought back yen in order to repay their Japanese debts - and those purchases sent the yen higher.

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Instead of letting the amassed credit be reduced through explicit defaults, central banks have opted to print more currency in order to help repay the debt over time.

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Forcing a broker to stay on with an employer for another year or so in order to avoid having to repay training costs is not best for the industry or the investing public.

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German and French banks have already agreed in principle to roll over loans to Greece in order to give the country more time to repay its debts.

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They would sell euros, Aussie dollars and U.S. dollars in order to buy yen and repay the loans.

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In fact, the first leg of the NBCUniveral deal came at a time when GE was selling assets in order to stabilize its financial services arm and repay billions in crisis-time government loans.

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In August last year, the Supreme Court upheld SEBI's 2011 order directing Sahara to repay its bond holders as it had flouted capital market rules while issuing the bonds.

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