Sentence examples for minus inflation from inspiring English sources

It's also better than the current return on conventional Treasurys, where the nominal yield to maturity is 6% and the real return (roughly speaking, nominal yield minus inflation rate) is 3% or so.

First, look at the real cost of financing a home the aftertax interest rate plus property tax rates minus inflation.

If the Fed lowers the federal funds rate to 3.5%, as expected, the real federal funds rate (the nominal interest rate minus inflation) will be near zero.

Real rates (nominal rates minus inflation) might be pushed up by either government borrowing or a reluctance by Chinese savers to send us capital.

That means that real rates (interest rates minus inflation) are still in the double digits with lots of room to fall.

For a graphic on German 10-year bond yields minus inflation, click on http://link.reuters.com/daw25s.reuters.com/daw25s

Real bond yields (bond yield minus the inflation rate) predict bond returns reasonably well.

The real interest rate on a fixed-income investment is the nominal yield minus the inflation rate.

The most important one for bonds is the real yield — yield on the bond minus the current inflation rate.

The real interest rate is essentially the nominal interest rate minus the inflation rate.

Real rates are what people pay for a mortgage, for example, minus the inflation rate.