The phrase "a negative reading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing interpretations, assessments, or evaluations that are unfavorable or critical.
Example: "The critic's review provided a negative reading of the film, highlighting its flaws rather than its strengths."
Alternatives: "a pessimistic interpretation" or "a critical assessment".
A negative reading means pessimists outnumbered optimists.
A negative reading is possible because the number is based on current income.
A negative reading means that a higher percentage of the manufacturers surveyed reported that business had deteriorated than improved.
"The lack of momentum as the economy entered Q3 means that the chances of a negative reading for the current quarter are relatively high".
While the reading was better than the minus 58 registered three months ago, it remained a negative reading indicating that pessimists still outnumbered optimists.
A negative reading would sink us into the misery of the "invert"; the medical pathology of Havelock Ellis, and the bitterness of Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness (1928).
We believe that this is likely to be a negative read-through for Compass growth, our second half organic growth for Compass is around 4%, and [we] highlight the stock trading near an all-time absolute high and a prospective PE of around 16 times.
The low sensitivity of the tests is becoming a concern to health authorities because a false negative reading might prompt a doctor not to prescribe antiflu drugs.
An October tracking survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that among the public overall, 51percentt had an unfavorable view of the law and only 34percentt a favorable view, a more negative reading than most other polls.
Although it almost never provides a false "negative" reading, it can produce false "positives".
As grim as the Obama era has been, Americans still have a distinctly negative reading on what the last period of Republican economic stewardship delivered: rising health care costs, wage stagnation, a real estate bubble and then of course the financial crash itself.
