Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Low rates spur colleges to refinance, issue debt



By Manuela Badawy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Extremely low interest rates and an improved financial environment in the United States are encouraging educational institutions to refinance and take on debt.
As university endowments continue to refill their coffers after the credit crisis, school administrators are starting to consider borrowing money to maintain the premises and spend in their institutions.
Credit rating agencies have seen a sharp increase in rating requests from U.S. colleges and universities in the month of February as these institutions seek to take advantage of the near zero rates to borrow more debt or refinance existing ones.

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