Sentence examples for rate close to zero from inspiring English sources

Lord Stern uses a rate close to zero.

Japan has also kept its policy interest rate close to zero for years, to no avail.

The committee has kept its targeted rate close to zero since 2008, to encourage businesses and people to take on more debt and spend more.

With a vacancy rate close to zero, it is doubtful that many other firms will manage to squeeze their way in.

Earlier this year, she suggested that the Fed might want to keep the federal funds rate close to zero even after the unemployment rate falls below 6.5percentnt, which the central bank has identified as a key threshold.

The Federal Reserve has kept its target federal funds rate close to zero for so long that there are second-graders who have never lived in a world in which the rate has been any higher than one per cent.

Our economy today isn't growing nearly fast enough for that to happen again, but getting down the rate close to eight per cent isn't out of the question.

The number of complete sequence of prokaryotic genomes that are published per year has increased more than tenfold in the last seven years with a present rate close to four newly published prokaryotic genomes per week.

Counting 2012 would put the growth rate closer to zero.

Questioned by MPs in April, Carney said: "We think we could move base rate closer to zero but have not said we have an appetite for negative interest rates".

If the rate remains high under specific circumstances, or to lower the rate closer to zero, new devices or materials may help.