Sentences with phrase «lending at a markup»

Today, they reflect the flow of international borrowing where interest rates are low and lending at a markup where credit is tight — and then hedging this arbitrage, and jumping on the bandwagon to speculate on which way currencies will go.

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Hundreds of billions of dollars, euros and sterling worth of yen were borrowed and duly converted into foreign currencies to lend out at a markup.

Libraries can «lend» ebooks a fixed number of times before they have to buy them again, usually at significant markup, and many proprietary, cumbersome systems exist that require a specific e-reader.