Sentence examples for are now negative from inspiring English sources
adverb
At the present time.
Nominal interest rates are now negative not only for overnight debt, but also for 10-year government bonds.
Real rates are now negative in developed countries, so the opportunity cost of holding gold has disappeared.
This pessimism about growth helps explain, among other things, the fact that long-term interest rates are now negative in many advanced countries.
All told, the fear is that America's activism in fighting financial distress will create dangerous instability in the global monetary system.The case for boldnessWith inflation at 4% in the year to February, and the core rate (excluding food and fuel) at 2.3%, America's real short-term interest rates are now negative.
Measured against the consumer-price index, real interest rates are now negative.The 2001 campaign of monetary loosening has undoubtedly had some effect, most obviously by underpinning consumption as millions of Americans have refinanced their mortgages.
Large-cap U.S companies are now negative on a trailing 10-year return basis.
Their savings rate is now negative.
"I think this is a regime change and the BoJ's main policy tool is now negative interest rates," said Daiju Aoki, an economist at UBS Securities in Tokyo.
Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, noted that in Denmark, where one of the official policy rates is now negative, a spokesman for the financial regulator warned that banks there have to charge customers more to rebuild margins.
Americans in 1998 are satisfied and prosperous: the savings ratio is now negative for the first time in a generation, and third-quarter growth, at an annualised 3.3%, is still comfortably robust.
As in the euro zone, where consumer prices fell for the first time ever in the 12 months to June, and Japan, where inflation excluding perishable food was -1.1% in May, inflation in America is now negative because of a drop in fuel prices last year.
