Sentence examples for a negative rate from inspiring English sources

Switzerland introduced a negative rate in December 2014.

Paying a negative rate on that pile would impose a nasty cost on banks.

On a negative deposit rate, Draghi said, "for us, these are largely uncharted waters" [suggesting to us some reticence concerning implementing a negative rate].

Investment website zerohedge notes: The rate announcement is not the surprise: virtually nobody expected a cut which would have taken the deposit facility to a negative rate and the monetary Twilight Zone.

For example, negative interest policy rates (NIRPs) are now standard in Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, the eurozone, and Japan, where the excess reserves that banks hold with central banks as a result of QE are taxed with a negative rate.

It could mean that an account holder with £1,000 in a NatWest account could see that shrink to £999 or less the following year as the bank charges a negative rate of interest.

He even gets a negative rating from his own voters.

deals, Fitch placed five on a negative rating watch, and Moody's put one on a downgrade review.

Patients treated in 4,500 wards responded to the simple survey question – and in June, 36 wards got a negative rating.

Moody's has a negative rating on the German banking sector.

In a sign of how the party is struggling, Burnham is the only candidate without a negative rating with the public.