According to the National Weather Service, the temperature in Iowa City at that time was about 21 below zero and it had been below zero all day.
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Japan's central bank, feeling a little wacky last week, loudly promised not to cut interest rates below zero and then almost immediately cut interest rates on excess reserves below zero.
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Wind chill factors will be well below zero as well.
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The temperature on the field is 15 degrees below zero.
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It dipped below zero this year and is still inverted.
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The friendliness in our customer service is well below zero.
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It could move its benchmark interest rate further below zero.
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Minneapolis will drop below zero Sunday, Monday and Tuesday mornings.
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And the average, as expected, is 28503 degrees below zero.
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The rate on Japan's bonds remain below zero as well.
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The wind made it feel like about 17 below zero.
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Wow, 25 degrees below zero, record cold and snow spell.
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Temperatures there could remain below zero for nearly 80 straight hours.
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A reading below zero indicates that the sector is actually contracting.
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A reading below zero means activity in the sector is shrinking.
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It had been below zero every day since the Brexit vote.
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That pushed German 10-year Bund yields below zero last month.
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Switzerland and Sweden are among several countries with rates below zero.
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I've sweated inside of this jacket on hikes below zero degrees.
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Yields on German five-year bonds fell below zero last year.
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Although still below zero, the index has risen considerably this year.
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Any reading below zero indicates contraction in the region's manufacturing sector.
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A reading below zero suggests a contraction in regional business activity.
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New orders and shipments fell as their indexes dropped below zero.
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In Europe and Japan nominal interest rates are already below zero.
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Chicago set an all-time record low of 22018 below zero.
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Its daytime high Wednesday is forecast to be 15 below zero.
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High-quality ice melt is effective in temperatures well below zero.
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The daytime high in the city Wednesday was 453 below zero.
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In winter, the mercury could plunge to fifty degrees below zero.
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A reading below zero indicates contraction in the region's manufacturing sector.
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"It hasn't been below zero in quite some time," Mr. Homenuk said.
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Push it too far, and it drops below zero into negative numbers.
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A little over a week ago it was trading below zero percent.
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And the windows stay open year-round — unless it gets below zero.
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" "It's about 10 degrees below zero outside … You can keep his coat.
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The Fed can't put its interest rate too far below zero percent.
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The traditional thinking has been that interest rates cannot go below zero.
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Arctic air will create wind chills well below zero in many places.
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"I don't think there's much interest in going below zero," Kashkari said.
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The city's daytime high on Wednesday might only reach 553 below zero.
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You know it's about 10 degrees below zero outside…Keep his coat.
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In New England, they'll fall to as low as 213 F (220 C) below zero around Boston and as low as 103 F (210 C) below zero in parts of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire, the service said.
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Some households are also worried that savings deposit rates could dip below zero.
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Temperatures will remain well below zero in Minnesota and Wisconsin on Wednesday night.
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The interest rate needed to balance the two drops, ultimately to below zero.
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Yields on safe-haven German Bunds fell below zero for the first time.
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" Christensen argues, though, that effective lower bound "is clearly located significantly below zero.
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Traders and analysts expect the 10-year yield to slip below zero percent.
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On Tuesday, the 50-year Swiss government bond yield fell below zero percent.
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Interest rates have been cut below zero and free loans offered to banks.
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That's even before accounting for inflation; real returns would probably be below zero.
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If the result is below zero, the ticket is definitely a bad purchase.
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"Freezing rain exists in liquid form at below zero degrees Celsius," he said.
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Other central banks including in Europe in Japan, have pushed rates below zero.
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Could stock valuations in Europe and Japan be infinite with yields below zero?
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As things are, rates can't drop below zero, but they struggle to climb.
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Chicago could see a record low of 24 below zero by tomorrow morning.
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Yields in the curve through to around 12 years are now below zero.
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Overnight, more of the same, down to 10, with below-zero wind chills.
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Other top-rated corporate issuers with bond yields below zero include German conglomerate Siemens.
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The entire German government yield curve out to 210 years is now below zero.
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In fact, there is still $6.5 trillion of bonds globally sporting yields below zero.
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With wind chill, it could feel like 30 or 40 degrees below zero. Yikes.
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The German 10-year bund yield fell below zero for the first time Tuesday.
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Last month, the ECB pushed its benchmark rate further below zero, to minus 0.5%.
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The temperature went down even more on Thursday, dropping below zero in some areas.
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At one point earlier this year, the entire German yield curve was below zero.
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Would cutting rates below zero have the same impact as cutting rates above zero?
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Now, winter has set in and temperatures are dropping to below zero at night.
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Her company went from being valued at more than $9 billion to below zero.
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Japan and several European nations have recently cut overnight lending rates down below zero.
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ET (scheduled kickoff time) in the 5-below-zero to 10-above-zero range.
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The program has succeeded in pushing down interest rates, in some cases below zero.
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It was 10 below zero, the windchill took it down to like -77 Fahrenheit.
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Germany's long-dated borrowing costs hit 2-1/2-year lows below zero percent.
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In Boston, wind chills may drop as low as 15 to 20 below zero.
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The wind chill could make the air feel as cold as 100 below zero.
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On Wednesday the bill yields fell below zero for the first time since 2015.
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This has led to sovereign yields in Japan and Germany to trade below zero.
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Chicago could reach a record low temperature of 262 below zero by Thursday morning.
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The water is released at night, when temperatures can drop below zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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Chicago could reach a record low temperature of 27 below zero by Thursday morning.
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A move to below zero indicates a change in momentum direction, usually a downtrend.
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More than 240 million, or 265%, will see temperatures continue to be below zero.
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Chicago could reach a record low temperature of 271 below zero by Thursday morning.
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He has done ice sculptures in Alaska when it was 30 degrees below zero.
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German bonds with a maturity out to nine years already have a yield below zero.
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Fearing a downturn, investors have piled into safe-haven government bonds, driving yields below zero.
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In some cases, this drained their linked bank accounts below zero, resulting in overdraft charges.
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Meanwhile, policy interest rates in some of these countries are close to or below zero.
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It was below zero outside, and the frigid damp made it feel even colder inside.
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German 10-year yields, already below zero percent since Friday, fell further into negative territory.
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Specifically, the immense amount of pressure below-zero yields have on banks and pension funds.
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The yield on the 24.8-year German bond fell below zero for the first time.
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Lows in the Windy City are expected to approach a record of 27 below zero.
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Boston will plunge to 7 degrees below zero -- plus up to a foot of snow.
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Last year temperatures along the route plunged to 28 degrees Fahrenheit below zero (-224 Celsius).
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Air temperatures at the time were around six degrees Celsius below zero (21 degrees Fahrenheit).
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The renewed fall briefly pushed all German yields out to nine years maturity below zero.
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Q: My son is in college in Maine, and the temperature is frequently below zero.
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It's been brutally cold in Chicago, with temperatures of 20-25 below zero on Wednesday.
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This will be difficult to accomplish since interest rates are already at or below zero.
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Factor in the wind chill, and it likely will feel below zero the whole day.
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At one point last year, more than $17 trillion in bonds offered yields below zero.
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Below Zero When you lend somebody money, they usually have to pay you for the privilege.
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Germany's benchmark 10-year Bund yield fell below zero on Tuesday for the first time ever.
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The gel-filled caps are stored in dry ice and kept at 32 degrees below zero.
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The country is sometimes called the "frozen land," and the temperature can drop well below zero.
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Last month, the European Central Bank pushed its benchmark rate further below zero, to minus 0.5%.
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The deposit rate is currently -0.4 percent, and has been below zero for almost three years.
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Mr Edwards thinks the yields on Treasuries will plummet to below zero in the next recession.
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What's happening: German 10-year bond yields fell below zero for the first time since 453.
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Germany's 10-year bond yield remained near 13-1/2-year lows at below zero percent.
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If they go below zero and stay there for an extended period, it may become impossible.
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As more money flows into bonds, their yields go down — even below zero in some cases.
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With energy levels dropping below zero, it was time for the final event: the run & shoot.
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It's always cold outside in space, and usually around 80 degrees Fahrenheit below zero on Mars.
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It also cut interest rates, which first fell below zero in 2014, deeper into negative territory.
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And according to FOX5NY, thanks to the windchill, temperatures would feel like they were below zero.
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If you're currently residing in an area where temperatures are below zero, you are not alone.
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During winters, which lasted much of the year, temperatures sometimes fell to 30 degrees below zero.
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This year, the bank took the extreme measure of reducing its benchmark interest rate below zero.
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Yields on bonds issued by some blue-chip firms in Europe have also dipped below zero.
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In the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, temps will plunge to 20-40 degrees below zero.
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At the same time, bond yields across all maturities fell below zero for the first time.
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That has pushed yields on German bonds with a maturity out to eight years below zero.
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The U.S. has never cut interest rates below zero, but such a move has been considered.
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No benchmark UK bond yields have fallen below zero yet, unlike their Japanese and German counterparts.
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At times, temperatures dipped to 50 degrees below zero and whiteouts from snowstorms obscured the trail.
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The temperature that morning was reported to be below zero, with windchill making it even worse.
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Temperatures were in the teens on Thursday night, and stiff winds made it feel below zero.
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The policies in Europe and Japan are still relatively new and involve rates only slightly below zero.
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Even on a hot summer day, the outside temperature at 30,000 feet can hit 50 below zero.
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"Let's go below zero and hide from the sun," the Australian pop star croons in the chorus.
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Whether the Fed hikes or cuts below zero, the global economic panic will be good for rates.
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Yields fell below zero for the first time this month and have just kept on going down.
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The National Weather Service said wind chills in many areas Thursday could make temperatures feel below zero.
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It has not exceeded 0.5 percent in two years and has fallen below zero on several occasions.
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One night, she says, she bundled up and ventured out when it was 11 degrees below zero.
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And if the weather dips below zero, they can have lunch with some pennies on the side.
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Before the recent crisis, conventional wisdom held that the fed funds rate could not go below zero.
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It was the coldest day on record in Indiana, with temperatures reaching 21989 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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When temperatures plunged below zero early this month, boats struggled in the icy waters and machinery faltered.
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Amazon had an effective tax rate of below zero — receiving a rebate — on income of $10.8 billion.
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Amazon said its effective tax rate last year was below zero: It got a $10.8 billion rebate.
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EU OFFICIAL SAYS EU, EUROZONE GROWTH WILL VERY LIKELY FALL BELOW ZERO THIS YEAR DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
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Benchmark interest rates in all of the world's major developed economies are now near — or below — zero.
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The 10-year yields for German and French bonds have been below zero for a few weeks.
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One SFAC specialist helped a homeless veteran find shelter when it was 20 degrees below zero outside.
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The Midwest was the hardest-hit region, as temperatures plunged below zero Fahrenheit (minus 19853 degrees Celsius).
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In Denmark, where rates have been below zero for seven years, banks have introduced negative-rate mortgages.
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Olsen declined to say if the probability of a future move to rates below zero had changed.
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In one recent example, power prices spent 31 hours below zero during the last weekend of October.
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"We were very, very high up" — about 10,000 feet — "and very, very cold" — 36 degrees below zero.
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The temperatures are bitingly cold, and they're forecast to get even icier this weekend, plunging below zero degrees.
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They can drop as low as 75 or 80 degrees below zero -- which aren't conducive to blood flow.
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I silently wonder why we choose to live in a country that's below zero for half the year.
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They say low interest rates, which have fallen below zero for many government bonds, have encouraged irresponsible borrowing.
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While that was more than expected, inflation once again fell below zero last month as energy prices dropped.
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The central bank's adoption of negative rates has driven JGB yields below zero, while also increasing market volatility.
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It may have been 14 below zero outside, but things were getting heated inside the old city building.
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The Bank of Japan cut a key interest rate below zero on Friday to spur its flagging economy.
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The 10-year swap rate fell to minus 0.00125 percent on Friday, below zero for the first time.
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Factor in strong winds, and states from northern Pennsylvania to Maine felt wind chills well, well below zero.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark rate below zero in a bold move to stimulate the Japanese economy.
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An inversion of the yield curve - when the spread falls below zero - is an indicator of coming recession.
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They offered him numbers showing that during President Obama's second term, net migration from Mexico fell below zero.
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Intense competition has prompted a race to, and even below, zero for fees on some more basic funds.
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Single-digit temperatures that dipped below zero likely played a role in the man's death, Rochester police said.
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Winds chills will be well below zero this weekend, with some areas feeling like it is minus 40.
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The Bank of Japan's negative interest rate implemented in February has pushed yields on most JGBs below zero.
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The situation is even worse in several European countries where nominal interest rates have long been below zero.
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While Detroit saw a low of 14 below zero Thursday, it was in positive territory by late afternoon.
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If customers don't accept overdraft coverage, banks simply decline transactions that would drop an account balance below zero.
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That investment is now having an unexpected impact: Consumers get paid when electricity prices occasionally dip below zero.
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Their intent was to estimate what that rate would have been if it could have fallen below zero.
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The downward fee spiral remains good news for millions of people, even if the fees drop below zero.
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Among the most extreme: atop Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, which could feel like 210 degrees below zero.
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The temperature was 13 degrees below zero, and a new heating system installed beneath the turf had failed.
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The wind chill at Grand Forks International Airport was 61 degrees below zero, the National Weather Service said.
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At the time, the temperature in Venetie — a village of about 175 people — was 31 degrees below zero.
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Residents in Hebei are also bracing for a colder winter, with temperatures forecast to plunge deeper below zero.
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Wind gusts up to 50 mph created ground blizzards and below-zero wind chill temperatures in some areas.
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And this is the winter time in Vermont, so we're talking about 123 below zero, in zero weather.
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USA Today reported that Moline set a record low temperature of 33 degrees below zero on Thursday morning.
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All of this suggests the Fed would face a backlash if it tried to move rates below zero.
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Wind chills will be as low as 20 to 40 degrees below zero in parts of the Northeast.
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With schools closed and temperatures well below zero, one family learned some hard lessons about the scientific process.
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According to Fitch Ratings agency, just over $10 trillion of sovereign bonds globally had yields below zero in May.
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In Germany, where the entire yield curve was below zero on Friday for the first time, yields fell further.
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Dangerous wind chills could yield temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero in the Northern Plains on Friday.
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The lower the reading on the index, the more relaxed conditions are, with anything below zero indicating loose conditions.
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Luckily, if working out outside is your thing, it doesn't need to stop just because temps fall below zero.
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In the euro area both short-term and long-term interest rates are close to or even below zero.
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If I'm still working this job in January, I'll really have to suit up for the below zero mornings.
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Tesla isn't unaware of the issue and has issued some tips on operating their vehicles in below-zero temperatures.
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Note that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen does not show a lot of sympathy for plunging rates below zero.
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In temperatures well below zero (and in 24-hour sunlight), all 10 climbers in the group reached the summit.
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The Consumer Price Index is back below zero, after an upswing during Mr. Abe's first two years in office.
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The spread between 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields fell below zero for the first time since 2007.
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Temperatures also remain on average below zero from December to March, and can often fall to -27 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The European Central Bank's key interest rate is below zero and analysts are not expecting any rises through 2017.
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Possible moves include another cut in the deposit rate for funds from commercial banks to even further below zero.
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Values below zero suggest below-average financial market stress, while values above zero suggest above-average financial market stress.
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Investors' desire for safety drove the yield on German ten-year government bonds below zero for the first time.
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That has prompted a collapse in bond yields across the 19-nation bloc, dragging money market rates below zero.
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Chicago came close to breaking its record of 27 below zero when temperatures plunged to 21 below, Hennen said.
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"Palm trees, here," he said, noting that temperatures in the winter can drop to 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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Yields have fallen so far that more than $10 trillion of government debt worldwide is now trading below zero.
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That was the status atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, where the wind chill recently reached 89 below zero.
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Fed officials have rejected the notion that the U.S. central bank might eventually take its policy rate below zero.
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"The presumption is that the federal funds rate can't fall below zero," he says in a note to clients.
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"He told me that it was there that he first experienced a winter temperature below zero," Ira Fybish said.
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Sometimes, when energy demand is low and wind is strong, the credit can drive the effective price below zero.
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The single-digit temperatures that dipped below zero may have played a role in his death, Rochester police said.
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The yield on Germany's benchmark 103-year government bond fell below zero for the first time since October 2016.
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The Marmot Expedition Mittens feature plentiful Primaloft synthetic insulation, keeping your hands warm even in temperatures well below zero.
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For the next week, that means temperatures in the teens during the day and just below zero at night.
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"Around Halloween, which is when they were born, it got really cold here, like 20 below zero," she said.
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But a significant move below zero may be on the cards and European corporate yields could follow the same path as those on high-rated Swiss corporates, which moved into negative territory after the Swiss central bank cut rates below zero and lowered its deposit rate to -0.75 percent in January last year.
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Yet the Riksbank has chosen to leave interest rates at an extraordinarily low level: below zero, in fact, at -0.50%.
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They aren't dressed appropriately for kids to be standing outside in below zero weather waiting for the bus to school.
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Astana is one of the coldest cities in the world, and winter temperatures regularly dip to 20 degrees below zero.
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A reading below zero shows the region's manufacturing sector is contracting, while a figure above zero shows it is expanding.
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In Chicago, the temperature fell below zero on Tuesday and wasn't expected to rise above it again until Thursday evening.
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But German 10-year bund yields remained below zero and that worried global stock markets despite some steadying on Tuesday.
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German yields have been anchored below zero as the deadlock over Brexit has fuelled investor demand for the safe havens.
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Last month the BOJ cut a benchmark interest rate below zero, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate growth.
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Other European bonds also rallied strongly on Monday, with Dutch 30-year yields falling below zero for the first time.
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Be prepared Near zero temperatures are expected in New York's Central Park, while it will dip below zero in Boston.
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Inflation is below the ECB's near-2-percent target and Germany's 10-year bond yield has dropped back below zero.
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Near-zero temperatures are expected in New York's Central Park, while it is forecast to dip below zero in Boston.
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Central banks are therefore keen to find ways of pushing interest rates below zero without damaging their banking systems' profitability.
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Some banks may be receiving swaps instead of buying government bonds, where the 10-year yield has fallen below zero.
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Demand-starved recoveries with central-bank interest rates stuck perpetually at or below zero are corrosive in their own way.
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Still, with German 10-year bund yields below zero the U.S. bank says equities offer value compared with other assets.
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Burning about 8,000 calories a day, Greg and Vanessa climbed day and night – sometimes in temperatures at 20 below zero.
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The issue is that the economic benefits of pushing the deposit rate, currently at -0.5%, further below zero are dubious.
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While a refundable tax credit can push a person's tax liability below zero, resulting in a refund, a deduction cannot.
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According to the Fitch Ratings agency, just over $10 trillion of sovereign bonds globally had yields below zero in May.
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The winter's coldest air is forecast to drop from Canada, bringing below-zero highs to cities including Minneapolis and Chicago.
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But things weren't much better in 2019, when it had 69 days that dropped below zero — the most ever recorded.
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Bitter cold Over the next week, more than 30% of the US population will experience temps below zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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For euro zone benchmark issuer Germany, that means bonds with maturities out to nine years now yield below zero percent.
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Video captured an Indiana team that overcame frozen fire hydrants and below-zero wind chill to contain a house fire.
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G10 Even in the euro zone, where the index is deep below zero, data surprises have ticked higher of late.
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Germany's government shows little appetite to borrow to spend, even if its entire bond yield-curve is submerged below zero.
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It was a bitterly cold night, with temperatures in the teens, and the wind chill made it feel below zero.
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Much of New York and New England was under a wind chill warning on Monday, with readings well below zero.
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While it has proven possible to push interest rates below zero, doing so takes a toll on the banking sector.
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The Danish central bank was early off the mark with negative rates, launching below-zero certificates of deposit in 2012.
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"The situation is below zero... Every time prices rise, we fall, others fall... the poor are lost," he told Reuters.
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This is what sent waves of ice and water into Boston's days before temperatures are expected to fall below zero.
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But banks see lowering the rates paid to retail savers below zero as a line they are unwilling to cross.
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In 2009, Mr. Rosenquist published an autobiography, "Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art," written with David Dalton.
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In euro zone benchmark issuer, Germany, that means bonds with maturities out to nine years now yield below zero percent.
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Restating this point, for a decade there has been a great deal of money around at real prices below zero.
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And it will feel even colder to the 55 million Americans who will experience below-zero temperatures because of windchill.
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In New York, the low temperature was 28 degree below zero, which was the coldest the city has been since 230.
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Firefighters use similar sprays and foams up north, but these variants used at McMurdo are rated for 40 degrees below zero.
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For now, the BoJ can seek to keep yen rises at bay by allowing 10-year yields to fall below zero.
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That does not mean policymakers should overlook the effectiveness of quantitative easing when interest rates are close to, or below, zero.
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Temperatures can plunge as low as 35 degrees Celsius below zero (minus 31 F) in the city in China's Heilongjiang province.
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Inflation in the euro zone, long around or even below zero, is now its highest in four years at 403 percent.
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Some have even pushed rates below zero with a negative rate effectively charging banks who park cash at a central bank.
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If anyone thinks you're going to put your phone in your pocket just because it's below zero and hailing, they're nuts.
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Alvarado notes that there are legal questions as to whether the Fed even has the authority to lower rates below zero.
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But what if, as some economists believe, GDP for the first quarter comes on April 28th just a hair below zero?
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The national weather service rates winters using the Hellmann index, the inverse of the sum of daily average temperatures below zero.
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Air temperatures from Nunavut to Ontario have plunged well below zero Fahrenheit, with wind chills colder than minus-40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The policy is increasingly being seen as a viable option for central bankers after Japan's move below zero earlier this year.
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Hedge funds have ramped up bets on a devaluation since the Bank of Japan cut interest rates below zero last week.
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They have kept short-term interest rates close to (or in some cases below) zero for much of the past decade.
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Meanwhile, the yield on Switzerland's 50-year government bond fell below zero for the first time on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
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That could widen to 0.4% above and below zero as early as September, said Izuru Kato, chief economist at Totan Research.
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The fire in front of the police station went out around 9 PM on Monday night, when temperatures dipped below zero.
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Russian troops will be living under the harshest of conditions: 18-month deployments where the temperatures can dip well below zero.
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The central bank maintained its negative interest rate policy adopted in February, which has pushed yields on most JGBs below zero.
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Meanwhile, Japanese debt with yields below zero increased by 6.6% or $458 billion to $7.4 trillion on Wednesday, J.P. Morgan said.
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The wind chill in parts of New England is expected to be 40 F to 50 F below zero, he said.
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Wind chills of 25 to 45 degrees below zero are expected for parts of New England, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.
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The 853.443-year Japan government bond yield (JGB) fell below zero for the first time, likely weighed by safe haven flows.
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But underscoring the powerful gravitational pull under the BOJ's super easy monetary policy, the five-year yield remained firmly below zero.
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Daytime highs in December, in the middle of the Antarctic summer, average 31.5 degrees Fahrenheit, or just below zero degrees Celsius.
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The ECB targets inflation of close to 2 percent over the medium-term but it is running at just below zero.
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President Donald Trump has long advocated for negative rates, and he has criticized Powell for pushing back on below-zero rates.
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DENMARK The Danish central bank was early off the mark with negative rates, launching below-zero certificates of deposit in 2012.
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Zero will also cut you off if you try to make a purchase that would put that current position below zero.
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Some were forced to work in temperatures as low as 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit without sufficient protections against the cold.
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Even some of the hawks on the ECB's governing council think interest rates can safely be pushed even further below zero.
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The lack of fiscal stimulus has also forced the European Central Bank to lower interest rates below zero - antagonising German savers.
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You can play the same game with Mars, and you will find its average temperature would be 2628 degrees below zero.
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In Detroit, the metro airport had 36 hours of below-zero temperatures through Thursday, its longest such streak since January 1994.
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The central bank maintained the negative interest rate policy adopted in February, which has pushed yields on most JGBs below zero.
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In Qaanaaq, during the winter months, temperatures average around ten degrees below zero and the sun never appears above the horizon.
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When it's 10 degrees below zero, shady and windy, and my feet are on snow and ice, it gets really cold.
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Yields have fallen so far that more than $10 trillion of government debt worldwide is now trading with negative yields, and large portions of government debt from many countries is now below zero, as this recent chart from Citi shows: Just over two years ago, there wasn't a single government bond with a yield below zero.
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The mercury dropped during those frigid few days to one of its lowest points on record: more than 14 degrees below zero.
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Wind chill values of 30 to 20193 degrees below zero will be common across the northern Plains, Great Lakes, and upper Midwest.
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But even in the ordinarily more temperate coastal climes, temperatures were well below zero on Monday, according to the German Weather Service.
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Even with real rates below zero, high rates of inflation continued to erode consumer spending power and the value of financial assets.
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A strong yen makes it harder for Japan's central bank to revive inflation, especially as its interest rates already lie below zero.
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On the sovereign side, Germany is the starkest example of negative rates, with yields all along the curve there trading below zero.
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In other countries that have introduced negative interest rates, like Sweden and Switzerland, government bond yields have also been pushed below zero.
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Wind chill values of 30 to 60 degrees below zero will be common across the northern Plains, Great Lakes, and upper Midwest.
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But the system does not work when interest rates are below zero, as they have been in the euro zone since 2014.
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This is another way of saying that bonds have done so well, as central banks anchor interest rates at or below zero.
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Years of aggressive easing from the Bank of Japan have already pushed borrowing costs to or below zero, straining commercial banks' margins.
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The Bank of Japan had resisted setting rates below zero to stimulate the economy, despite nearly a quarter-century of slow growth.
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Japan and some countries in Europe have lowered benchmark interest rates below zero to stimulate their economies by encouraging borrowing and spending.
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Record lows were forecast over a wide stretch of the Midwest: Rochester, Minnesota, was forecast to reach 31 degrees below zero overnight.
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The European Central Bank slashed interest rates below zero last year to push down borrowing costs and prod banks to lend more.
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But banks' hunt for yields has taken them to the super longs bond yields through much of the curve now below zero.
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Faraday says its test mules have been driving in "the world's most extreme environments," from hot deserts to snowy, below-zero roads.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero in January, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy.
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Both the Bank of Japan and European Central Bank have cut their deposit rates below zero and could lower them yet further.
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Temperatures for the day are expected to peak at about 11 to 15 degrees below zero before dropping to -27 degrees overnight.
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He said the ECB could hike its deposit rate, currently below zero, before the main rates at which it lends to banks.
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The city is prone to frequent Arctic outbreaks with temperatures plunging below zero Fahrenheit, along with frequent light snowfalls and occasional blizzards.
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In fact, over 68 million people -- nearly a quarter of the US population -- will have a temperature fall below zero next week.
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The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency is warning residents the wind chill could drop as low as 20 degrees below zero early Monday.
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Between Tuesday and Thursday, temperatures will plunge to 20-63 degrees below zero in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Hennen said.
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But how likely is it that the Federal Open Market Committee, in the foreseeable future, will set the policy rate below zero?
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Investors instead flocked to the safety of German bunds, whose yield fell below zero for the first time in history on Tuesday.
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Winter-hardened towns are gaping at their new lows: 32 degrees below zero in Watertown, N.Y. Minus 603 in International Falls, Minn.
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His options are, however, limited given policy rates are already below zero, and the central bank has been buying assets for years.
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Temperatures will plunge to 260-40 degrees below zero between Tuesday and Thursday in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, Hennen said.
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There's no snow in the game day forecast, but the predicted high is 7 degrees, with a low of 5 below zero.
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The capitalization of the stock market is at a record level compared to GDP, while inflation-adjusted interest rates remain below zero.
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Central banks in Europe and Japan have pushed their own interest rates below zero in a bid to boost their struggling economies.
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They took on a host of challenges, including recording outside, using 16 GoPros strung together, when it was 25 degrees below zero.
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On a continent where temperatures could drop to 100 degrees below zero, Dr. Sladen could be seen wearing only a pullover sweater.
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At the time, the temperature was about 31 degrees below zero, officials said, and both children suffered unspecified injuries from the cold.
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North and west of the city it is colder still: 9 below zero in Sussex, N.J., with a wind chill of -20.
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The story is even more pessimistic in the European Union, where interest rates are slightly below zero and yet growth is faltering.
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With the global economy looking increasingly fragile, Japan is now taking a more aggressive step by cutting interest rates below zero on Friday.
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Much of North Dakota is under wind chill advisories, where it could feel as cold as 25 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
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Temperatures can drop down to below zero Fahrenheit from day-to-day, while having a roof over your head doesn't guarantee instant warmth.
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With the 10-year bund falling below zero, investors are essentially paying to lend money to the government for a full decade. Disclaimer
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The Bank of Japan's decision to cut a benchmark interest rate below zero sent the yields on Japanese government bonds to record lows.
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As it was approximately 148 degrees below zero at that time, it would have been like trying to catch a block of ice.
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Investors quickly rushed to re-price the news, sending two-year gilt yields below zero, sinking the pound and buoying the FTSE 100.
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France's ten-year bonds have been flirting with negative yields for two months; they went below zero three weeks ago and stayed there.
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The Bank of Japan's decision to cut its benchmark interest rate below zero sent the yields on Japanese government bonds to record lows.
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Winter temperatures fall as low as 58 degrees Celsius below zero, and snow drifts reach 1.5 meters in height, according to INK workers.
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The central bank unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero on Friday, stunning investors with another bold move to revive the economy.
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A thought also occurred of construction sites in some Western countries being closed down whenever it rained, or when temperatures fell below zero.
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Potentially life threatening wind chills as low as 50 degrees below zero are expected in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado and Idaho.
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He cites the fact that the nation went through one of the worst recessions in history, and the Fed never moved below zero.
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At yields below zero, investors are effectively paying more for an asset than what they will get in return when the bonds mature.
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But he wanted to consolidate, and it went and dropped to 35 degrees below zero, and that was the end of that army.
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Japan's 10-year yield fell below zero for the first time on the secondary market three weeks ago, again setting a G7 precedent.
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The ECB pushed its deposit rate below zero in 2014, effectively charging banks for parking their excess cash with the central bank overnight.
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As Mercury rotates, the dayside of the planet can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit, while the nightside cools to hundreds of degrees below zero.
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Magnitogorsk was built with radically insufficient resources and manpower in a location that suffered long, cold winters sometimes averaging below zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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"The temperature was a thousand degrees below zero," he writes, and then puts the odds of having sex in about the same range.
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The Bank of Japan's unexpected cut in a benchmark interest rate to below zero on Friday has supported bond markets around the world.
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We now know that it's possible for rates to go slightly below zero, but there still isn't much room for a rate cut.
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Still, if the ECB keeps overnight interest rates far below zero for much of the decade, long-term debt may outperform short-term.
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Major Developments: • Wind chills are expected to repeatedly plunge below zero in some areas, especially in New England, for the next several days.
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Ms. Klaben and Mr. Flores crashed in terrain that was waist-deep in snow, with temperatures as numbing as 48 degrees below zero.
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In Germany, the move was even more prevalent, with all government fixed income instruments except the 30-year bond carrying rates below zero.
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Moreover, given policy rates are already below zero in Japan and the euro zone, it's unclear how much further they could be cut.
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In Europe, rates across the spectrum went below zero earlier this year, with about $11 trillion of sovereign debt still possessing negative yields.
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The last low temperature recorded on Mars was minus 110, and the low forecast for Mount Washington on Saturday is 34 below zero.
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The researchers will face temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, winter days with no light and, most likely, polar bears.
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When wind chills plunged below zero this week, a few hardy souls were still ice-skating at the outdoor rink near City Hall.
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The crown slumped after the Swedish central bank pushed interest rates below zero in 2015, hitting a low of -0.50% in early 2016.
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Carney has expressed opposition to following the lead of the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan by cutting rates below zero.
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The ECB last week lowered the interest rate that lenders receive for depositing money with the central bank, pushing it further below zero.
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At the same time, "the barrier to reducing rates below zero is much higher than reducing it to zero or 0.1%," he said.
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However, the same was said before every post-crisis monetary policy step, from "quantitative easing" bond-buying to slashing interest rates below zero.
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But he wanted to consolidate, and it went and dropped to 0003 degrees below zero, and that was the end of that army.
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But oil has languished Several central banks around the globe have slashed interest rates to below zero to try and jumpstart sluggish economies.
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But there's just no way to allow continuing high emissions in the short-term without jacking emissions down way below zero later on.
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I order it every day, except when the temperature falls below zero, or if I've earned a free drink on Starbucks's rewards app.
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Though she was in the 50th percentile for weight when she was born, Bryce had sunk to below zero — "off the charts," says Mike.
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Going below zero could cause damage to the very architecture by which money and credit zoom through the economy, and in turn inhibit growth.
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The residents of the town of Hettinger were treated to a windchill of 58° below zero on the morning of New Year's Eve. 11.
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Roughly a third of the country (34 percent) will plummet below zero degrees Fahrenheit, with just 10 percent of the country remaining above freezing.
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A man in Minnesota was cited for animal cruelty this week after reportedly leaving his dog chained and shivering outside in below-zero temperatures.
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After all, they can safely inspect parts of the freight rail lines where temperatures can drop well below zero during the dead of winter.
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Click on to check them out, along with pieces to style them with, and get ready to look 100 even when it's below zero.
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Interest rates remain at or close to record lows in many major economies, including Sweden, where they have languished below zero since early 2015.
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The yen has gained more than 17 percent since the BOJ shocked markets in January by cutting rates below zero for the first time.
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You now have $12 trillion of sovereign debt priced below zero around the world, a 40-year downward slide in terms of interest rates.
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Germany's 22.06-year bond yield briefly dropped more than eight basis points to -225%, its first fall below zero, and was last at 22008%.
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They could be 20-below zero and need a parka and some gloves and then the next minute they're in Fiji on the beach.
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LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - The yield on Switzerland's 50-year government bond fell below zero for the first time on Tuesday, Reuters data showed.
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Squawk Box Live tracked market reaction after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly cut interest rates below zero for the first time in its history.
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For instance, when the Bank of Japan took rates below zero, many of the country's large asset-management firms stopped accepting money market cash.
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The ECB has kept its deposit rate below zero since 2014, effectively charging banks on their idle cash to spur them to lend more.
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Benchmark government bond yields in Germany retreated below zero and not far from March's two-and-a-half-year low of minus 0.09 percent.
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Punishing cold winds will make it feel 15 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Chicago Monday with the windchill effect, the National Weather Service said.
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The plunge in global oil prices has pushed inflation close to or below zero in many countries, helping consumers but wrong-footing central banks.
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The predicted low of 27 degrees below zero at O'Hare International Airport for Thursday would reportedly match the city's all-time record low temperature.
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Its benchmark interest rate is already set below zero, a move intended to try to force companies to invest money rather than hoard it.
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Germany's benchmark 10-year government bond yield plunged further below zero in recent weeks, pulling other euro zone government and corporate debt with it.
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Similar issues are being debated by policymakers worldwide as they struggle with persistently low growth and inflation running close to or even below zero.
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Going below zero means removing more carbon from the atmosphere than we are emitting, by capturing it and burying it beneath the earth's surface.
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Trying to kick-start growth and inflation, central banks across Europe have kept rates near or below zero, cutting borrowing costs to record lows.
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At an airport only 10 miles from the hub, temperatures dipped below zero late Tuesday afternoon and never rose above that until Thursday evening.
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Some would probably end up in one of the fishery's enormous warehouse freezers, which are set at 20 and 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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RISKY MOVE Fed officials have downplayed the idea of setting their target policy rate below zero as politically untenable and not worth the risks.
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People stopped talking about the "zero bound" several months ago, as central banks breezed through 0% to set negative interest rates far below zero.
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Eight months after the unpopular move to below-zero rates, the BOJ adopted so-called yield curve control, known in BOJ shorthand as YCC.
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On Friday, the spread between yields on three-month Treasury bills and 10-year notes fell below zero for the first time since 2007.
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The European Central Bank's 59 move to push a benchmark interest rate below zero eventually helped the eurozone rebound from years of slow growth.
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"The coldest air in a generation is sinking south, with below-zero temperatures already in the Upper Midwest," CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said Tuesday.
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Wind chills will plummet to 30-70 degrees below zero this week in parts of the northern Plains and Great Lakes region, Hennen said.
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Bitter cold spills into the Midwest The upper Midwest will see highs below zero Tuesday and even colder on Wednesday, Ward and Hennen said.
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The six-month Brent spread from April to October has widened to around $1.32 barrel, up from below zero on Feb. 14.
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Warmup underway In Tennessee, which had the coldest pockets in the South, wind chills made the air feel as cold as 10 below zero.
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The bitter cold that descended on New England, closing schools and delivering wind chills well below zero, brought unique complications to this state's farms.
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Belz, 18, was found outside early Wednesday in temperatures of more than 20 degrees below zero and with a wind chill around 50 below.
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For the traveler with extreme tastes, try a visit to Abisko, Sweden in the dead of winter, where nighttime temperatures often dip below zero.
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The yield on 10-year debt dropped below zero percent for the first time since 244 in March and has since scored record lows.
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So eager that they have pushed the interest the government needs to pay down to freakishly low levels — below zero for shorter-term securities.
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Even 10-year Swiss bonds have a negative rate, a sign markets expect below-zero rates to persist in Switzerland for many years to come.
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After venturing outside in the Montana snow during last week's polar vortex, Fluffy, an indoor-outdoor cat, nearly froze to death in below zero temperatures.
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European yield curves too have flattened and German 25-year government borrowing costs have slid back below zero percent for the first time since 22018.
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Then people remembered the "zero bound" problem — you can't cut interest rates below zero, because people can always hold onto cash which pays no interest.
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The poll also showed analysts expect the 10-year German bund yield to rise from below zero now to 0.20 percent by end-Sept 2017.
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It is now up almost 20 bps from a 2-1/2-year low below zero hit last month as recession fears gripped world markets.
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All those central banks raised interest rates after the 295.50 crisis, but now have them at historic lows — below zero in the case of Sweden.
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Mohamud Mumin: The properties of water allow for the top to freeze when it gets below zero, while it also supports life underneath that ice.
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Clear and sunny skies, on the other hand, typically come with temperatures way below zero, which means that everything you bring with you will freeze.
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His preferred temperature is 150 degrees below zero, and he walks around and listens to music for three minutes, the maximum amount experts will allow.
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The BOJ's adoption of negative interest rates in February has pushed yields on most JGBs below zero, which has made banks reluctant to hold them.
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It is hard to lower rates much below zero, however, since people and businesses would begin to swap bank deposits for cash or other assets.
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With central banks of the world's mature economies suppressing short-term interest rates near or below zero, safe yield is gravely scarce on the planet.
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The Bank of Japan having already cut rates below zero this year and the European Central Bank flagging a possible expansion of stimulus for March.
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The JGB yield curve through the 10-year maturities now yield below zero percent, dragged down under the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy.
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He grew up there as the fifth of nine children, playing hockey outdoors with makeshift equipment, the prairie winds raging and temperatures far below zero.
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Germany's 10-year bond yield fell below zero percent for the first time since October 2016 on Friday amid fears about a widespread European slowdown.
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Buyers of bonds with yields below zero are generally central banks trying to promote growth and pension funds and other institutions looking to balance risk.
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On Wednesday, investors everywhere were spooked by an inverted yield curve, in which the spread between two- and 10-year Treasury yields fell below zero.
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Economic Trends Interest rates in Europe got a little crazier this week when the yield on the 10-year German government bond fell below zero.
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Uncertainty ahead of the June 23 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union could provide the trigger for a break below zero percent yields.
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There was however a higher risk of outbreaks of the disease in the northeast this winter as temperatures there plunged below zero, the official warned.
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Those numbers strongly suggest investors expect the Fed to keep rates near zero — or conceivably below zero at some point — for a very long time.
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Below zero percent, investors are essentially paying governments and corporates to hold their debt - an investment that can be profitable if yields continue to fall.
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Another time, during the winter, Rife shot by herself when it was 11 degrees below zero and the ball felt like glass that might shatter.
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Another time, during the winter, Rife shot by herself when it was 11 degrees below zero and the ball felt like glass that might shatter.
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Evan became a human camera stand, striking a yoga pose and trying not to shiver in a stiff wind blowing at 25 degrees below zero.
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The European Central Bank pushed its rate further below zero in September, and other countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Japan have also done so.
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A sub-index measuring their expectations of future business fell for the first time since October 2014 below zero, the long-term average since 1991.
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Mr. Trump has been attuned to negative rate policies abroad as the European Central Bank looks poised to slash a key rate further below zero.
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According to Tradeweb, about 43 percent or 3.1 trillion euros of the 7 trillion euro-denominated government bond market in Europe has yields below zero.
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Dangerous wind chills In Tennessee, which had the coldest pockets in the South, wind chills made the air feel as low as 10 below zero.
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It becomes the first of the central banks that cut rates below zero to inch back to what was long considered the floor for rates.
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It becomes the first of the central banks that cut rates below zero to inch back to what was long considered the floor for rates.
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Confined to a prison in the Republic of Mordovia, she was fed gruel, lost 40 pounds and endured temperatures that plunged to 40 below zero.
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The yield on the lowest accepted price was minus 0.015 percent, marking the first time that the yield went below zero at a 10-year auction.
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In roughly 50-below zero temperatures, Federico Campanini was 22,300 feet above sea level on the Aconcagua mountain — the tallest mountain outside of Asia — on Jan.
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In broader markets, a disappointing German Ifo sentiment survey pushed German 10-year bond yields back below zero percent while borrowing costs across the bloc fell.
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Low government bond yields, particular in Germany where the 10-year bund yield fell below zero for the first time this week, has added to concerns.
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Whatever the cause, the upshot was a world in which the real rate of interest necessary to keep capacity from falling idle had dropped below zero.
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That has squeezed the margin between borrowing and lending rates: although the ECB has pushed its deposit rates below zero, few banks have dared do likewise.
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Policies in Europe and Japan to keep rates below zero have also made it tougher for the Fed to raise U.S. rates much higher, analysts said.
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They are already 1,000 hryvnias in debt to the local woodseller as they burn logs in their stove to stave off the well-below-zero temperatures.
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Nonetheless, a variety of policy benchmarks would, at least in hindsight, have called for pushing the federal funds rate well below zero during the economic downturn.
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When it slips below zero, investors typically look to the ECB to respond although Draghi's call for patience could indicate that it will take its time.
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But in the stress tests that large U.S. banks have to undergo, the central bank is hypothesizing that short-term Treasury yields could drop below zero.
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Kuroda had been saying for months that taking rates below zero was not a timely option, a position he had repeated as recently as Jan. 21.
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" Fink said the monetization of financial assets in Europe, especially now with over 50% of its debt yielding below zero, "actually harms the psychology of savers.
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Official interest rates can't fall far below zero because, the argument goes, people would hoard cash rather than pay to keep money in their deposit accounts.
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U.S. 10-year Treasury yields recovered slightly from 2017 lows, but German 10-year bund yields remained below zero, ensuring uncertainty despite the gains in equities.
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Bund yields below zero percent show investors are willing to pay the German government to hold its long-term debt, seen among the safest of assets.
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LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Sweden's 20-year government bond yield fell below zero for the first time on Friday, taking the country's entire yield curve negative.
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Officials used to worry that benchmark rates well below zero would encourage people to hoard cash under their mattresses or in other forms of self-storage.
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The reason investors want to buy bonds with yields below zero is that they are worried the global economy is slowing and will generate less inflation.
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Analysts are looking for the bank to reduce rates further below zero or perhaps expand purchases of other kinds of assets, like exchange-traded equity funds.
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The bank has tried a number of tactics to lift prices, including a reduction of interest rates below zero and buying large quantities of government bonds.
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Investors are anxious about a policy meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday as inflation across the 19-country eurozone has fallen back below zero.
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Plans to mitigate the side-effects of negative interest rates could also be considered, suggesting the central bank was preparing for an extended period below zero.
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This rate was currently set 40 basis points below zero, meaning banks have to pay the ECB for any excess cash they deposit at the institution.
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NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - The yields on one-month and three-month Treasury bills on Wednesday fell below zero for the first time since 2015.
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In a blog post released over the weekend, Bernanke cited the benefits of at least keeping the option alive to take short-term rates below zero.
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That's not really the case, though, and the distinction is important for the $11 trillion or so of global sovereign debt that carries below-zero yields.
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"It's not safe for them to stay here," Wise told me in mid-December, as temperatures remained below zero and the ground was covered with ice.
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The situation got out of hand in the first week of January after a Siberian blast poured into the region and temperatures dropped below zero Fahrenheit.
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The Riksbank cut rates below zero in early 2015 to head off the threat of Japanese-style deflation in the wake of the euro zone crisis.
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It becomes the first of the central banks that cut rates below zero to inch back to what was long considered the floor for interest rates.
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Demand for German real estate has risen over the last year, with investors viewing a safe haven and interest rates falling in some cases below zero.
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Japan and the euro area have slashed borrowing costs below zero, but such a policy remains unlikely in the United States even if the economy sours.
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On my recent trip it was 20 degrees below zero (minus 29 degrees Celsius) but a balmy 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) beneath the ice.
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Kuroda had been saying for months that taking rates below zero was not a timely option, a position he had repeated as recently as Jan. 13.
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This will bring with it high temperatures that will struggle to get above 0°F, and overnight lows on Tuesday through Thursday will plunge well below zero.
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It could get as cold as -28 degrees this Sunday morning, which may feel closer to 26 below zero, explained John Homenuk of New York Metro Weather.
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"This system sits at about minus one degree mean annual temperature, and you need temperatures below zero in order to sustain permafrost in your soils," Taylor explains.
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German 10-year bond yields, which plunged on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled no more rate hikes this year, dived again to fall below zero.
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It's been pushed to the max in temperatures from searing heat of summertime desert roads to severe cold-weather conditions well below zero on the Fahrenheit scale.
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Tens of thousands of refugees were left in limbo, many of the them forced to sleep outdoors, or in bombed-out buildings, as temperatures plunged below zero.
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Moreover, the Fed Reserve would have to cut rates to near or below zero and restart its quantitative easing program to combat an economic downturn, analysts said.
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Temperatures in the Midwest were below zero on Thursday, with schools and businesses closed and officials urging residents to stay inside, according to the New York Times.
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By far the coldest air is setting up shop across Alberta, where daily highs are likely to remain below zero Fahrenheit through the end of the week.
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"The more structural theme now is what now happens to institutional demand with the whole German bond yield curve below zero," said Commerzbank rates strategist Michael Leister.
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The gradual unwinding of purchases has also pushed up German yields but shorter-dated yields remain below zero, meaning investors are effectively paying to own German debt.
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For the first time in three years yields on German ten-year government debt fell below zero, meaning that investors are willing to pay to hold it.
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As yields on Japanese government bonds of up to 12 years to maturity fell below zero recently, Japanese banks and life insurers have flocked into foreign bonds.
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Parts of the Midwest, such as Minneapolis and Chicago, may get stuck below zero degrees Fahrenheit for the high temperature over the weekend and into Jan. 1.
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The Aussie 10-year bonds yield stood just above 1.8 percent , compared with 1.5 percent for its U.S. counterpart and below zero percent in Japan and Germany.
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A fall in JGB yields accelerated after the Bank of Japan adopted negative interest rates in January, with maturities up to 11 years now yielding below zero.
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Recent global market turmoil has prompted large-scale yen buying even though Japan recently lowered its interest rates below zero, which theoretically should reduce the yen's value.
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Central banks in Europe, notably the European Central Bank, have slashed interest rates below zero before to push down borrowing costs and prod banks to lend more.
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While Japanese bonds are hardly attractive, with the 10-year Japanese government bond yield below zero percent, the downside of the market is limited too, Toda said.
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After Friday's U.S. numbers, the gap between yields on three-month U.S. Treasury bills and 10-year notes fell below zero for the first time since 2007.
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German 22018-year bond yields, which plunged on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve signalled no more rate hikes this year, dived again to fall below zero.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates further into negative territory on Thursday and the Bank of Japan surprised markets by edging below zero in January.
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New York City's temperature plummeted to 653 below zero at Central Park, shattering the record of 2 degrees, set during World War I. Boston reported 9 below.
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The deposit rate was pushed well below zero and the ECB will have bought more than 2 trillion euros of bonds by the end of this year.
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Meanwhile, Germany's 22.6-year government bond yield quickly slipped to just below zero as more and more signs of weakness in the euro zone start to emerge.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Eurohold's IDR could be downgraded if the group fails to maintain profitability on a net income basis, or if its FCC ratio falls below zero.
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German 22016-year bond yields, which plunged on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled no more rate hikes this year, dived again to fall below zero.
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It even set its benchmark interest rate below zero, a policy tried in only a few other countries, in hopes of propping up prices and encouraging spending.
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Both the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan have taken official interest rates into negative territory, helping send a wave of government bond yields below zero.
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An inversion of the yield curve - when the spread between 2- and 10-year Treasury yields US2US10=TWEB falls below zero - is an indicator of coming recession.
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Below-zero wind chills are forecast across interior portions of New England and New York State, perhaps as cold as 20 below at night in northern Vermont.
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The Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank have pegged interest rates at or below zero for years now, and their economies are barely treading water.
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AND – EVANS: IF THEY'RE KEEPING RATES IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU KNOW, BARELY ABOVE ZERO, IN OTHER COUNTRIES, BELOW ZERO, WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF ALL THAT IS?
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Despite the bank's stimulus measures to date, inflation in the 19 countries of the eurozone has been stuck near or below zero for more than a year.
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Demand for German real estate has risen over the last years, with investors viewing it a safe haven and interest rates falling in some cases below zero.
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He has insisted that the United States should have the world's lowest interest rates; the European Central Bank's benchmark rate currently sits below zero, at -0.5 percent.
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A few days ago, when temperatures plunged below zero degrees Fahrenheit, dancers were given spikes for their shoes to ensure that they could dance in icy conditions.
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Government bond yields worldwide have endured historic lows of late, with interest rates on much of the world's traditionally reliable sovereign debt either at or below zero.
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The average wealth of the poorer half of American households has dropped below zero in the years since the financial crisis, according to the World Inequality Database.
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The thick yet pliant rubber used in the construction of this hose remains flexible and resists cracking even in temperatures down to 25 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit).
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Papers were delivered whether it was 100 degrees with humidity to match, or 10 degrees below zero with snow drifts twice as high as I was tall.
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It's a simple thing, making a cake from a box, but when you're doing it at 30 degrees below zero in Alaska, you feel rich, she said.
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Guests who book a suite in the downtown hotel save 1 percent off their room rate for every degree the temperature falls below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit).
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No, not this morning's comparatively warm 29 degrees, but 83 years ago today, when the mercury dropped to about 15 degrees below zero around 7:30 a.m.
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"Kuroda repeatedly vowed the central bank would not cut interest rates below zero before doing so in January," said Mansoor Mohi-Uddin, senior market strategist at RBS.
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North Dakota is anticipated to hit the single digits on Tuesday and Wednesday, with "overnight lows 10 to 15 below zero" possible, the National Weather Service reports.
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Daddy complains about the bitter below-zero days outside his barracks in Scotia, N.Y. "I haven't got anything to say except that I love you," he writes.
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Temperatures on those nights must fall to about 8 degrees below zero to kill most beetles, but that is simply not happening across much of the Northeast.
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Furthermore, its EBITDA margin fell below zero to -3.5% in 2015 and -2.2% in the 12 months to June 99143, as a result of the price cuts.
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"To cut the repo rate below zero again is possible – it is important that zero is not regarded as a lower bound," Deputy Governor Anna Breman said.
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After the storm, temperatures were expected to drop to the single digits and even below zero (-18 degrees Celsius) in parts of the Plains and the Midwest.
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When the ball drops to welcome 2018, the temperature is expected to be 10 degrees, with a wind chill making it feel like it is below zero.
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Among the developed economies where central banks have negative interest rates, Denmark is the only country where the entire government bond yield curve is below zero tmsnrt.
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By around daybreak on Sunday, the mercury had dipped below zero in Central Park, to minus 222, breaking a century-old record for the date, set on Feb.
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Yields on long-dated British government bonds have jumped higher in recent days as markets brace for the return of inflation which briefly sank below zero in 21.22.
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The BOJ has said it roughly defines its policy target of "around zero percent" for the 23-year yield as 13 basis points above or below zero percent.
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There's nothing quite so delicious as a wooden dry ski slope covered in the remnants of an igloo building site and that below-zero Emerald City theme park.
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With 10-year zone yields now stuck firmly below zero, investors like trust banks bought 20-year and 30-year bonds which still offer positive yields, traders said.
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"Even if 10-year yields fall below zero, it won't be a problem as long as they move within the range we said we will tolerate," he said.
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On Friday, Japan followed the European Central Bank in cutting a benchmark interest rate below zero, imposing a penalty charge on banks who park money with the institution.
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ECB President Mario Draghi cut this rate below zero for the first time in the middle of 2014, effectively charging banks that park money overnight with the ECB.
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The ECB has kept its deposit rate below zero since 2014, charging banks for keeping idle cash there as a way to spur them to lend out more.
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The Bank of Japan only recently joined the club of negative interest rates and the European Central Bank is widely expected to cut further below zero next week.
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Traffic growth has been negative in two months so far this year, the first readings below zero since the start of 2000, ("Traffic volume trends", FHWA, September 22018).
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Cutting rates below zero has been a factor in some central banks' struggle to help their economies recover from the financial crisis and its accompanying trend towards deflation.
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New Zealand's central bank stunned markets by cutting interest rates a steep 50 basis points and even flagged the risk of going nuclear by taking rates below zero.
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So far, neither the ECB nor the BOJ is expected to take action, having already bought trillions of dollars worth of bonds and pushed interest rates below zero.
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While it is too early to say how cold it will get, a few forecasting models projected temperatures falling below zero degrees Fahrenheit (minus 18 Celsius), Streit said.
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German 10-year yields stayed below zero for the fourth day, while the U.S. bond yield curve remained inverted - a key signal of recession - dampening appetite for risk.
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The spread between yields on three-month Treasury bills and 10-year notes fell below zero for the first time since 2007 after U.S. manufacturing data missed estimates.
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Average commercial property values have fallen around 3.5 percent since the June 23 vote and year-to-date returns tracked by the IPD index are hovering below zero.
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On that below-zero morning in Canada's capital, police say, the intruders bound four employees and struck one in the head with a handgun before leaving empty-handed.
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"The extreme conditions here are not just the below-zero temperatures, but also the very high salt concentrations," Jody Deming, another study author, said in the press release.
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My favorite anecdote is the time he claimed America was "getting soft" after Kentucky school officials closed classes because of a wind chill forecast of 20 below zero.
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According to JPMorgan Asset Management, 22 percent of government bond yields in the euro zone are below zero, compared with a peak in June 20 of 51 percent.
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The US just got a big recession warning, with the spread between 2-year and 10-year federal debt falling below zero for the first time since 2007.
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Traffic growth has been negative in two months so far this year, the first readings below zero since the start of 2014, ("Traffic volume trends", FHWA, September 2018).
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Japan's 10-year yield fell below zero on Monday, the first time that benchmark has ever turned negative for a G7 nation, while Germany's fell below 0.2 percent.
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The trade is essentially a bet that demand for European government bonds will lift their prices and send their yields further below zero while US yields remain positive.
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S. markets are highly reliant on the $2.5 trillion in money market funds, and money fund business models would be under extraordinary stress if rates fell below zero.
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The BOJ has said it roughly defines its policy target of "around zero percent" for the 13-year yield as 21 basis points above or below zero percent.
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The Austrian central bank governor said the ECB could hike its remuneration of bank deposits, currently below zero, before the main rates at which it lends to banks.
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The Bank of Japan on Friday made the shock decision to cut rates below zero, prompting some to warn of "currency wars" that do little for global growth.
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Streets in Chicago were nearly empty, with few people walking outside in the painfully cold air as temperatures hovered around 216 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 28 Celsius).
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German 30-year government bond yields climbed into positive territory on Tuesday for the first time since August on expectations of increased borrowing before slipping back below zero.
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Compare this with a proxy for an expected real return on corporate debt—the yield on investment-grade bonds less the current inflation rate, which is below zero.
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Both officials spoke Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and offered different views on how effective below-zero government bond yields are on stimulating growth.
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Compare that to the relative warmth of Priestley Glacier, Antarctica, which will have a Wednesday high temperature of 255 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 222 below zero.
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Global markets have entered something resembling a tailspin, with the impetus most likely being the introduction of negative rates in Japan and further moves below zero in Europe.
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The adoption of a negative interest rate in February has pushed yields on most JGBs below zero, further lessening the rationale for lenders to buy the sovereign bonds.
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The Riksbank cut rates below zero in 2015 to head off the threat of Japanese-style deflation as a crisis in the euro zone spilled over to Sweden.
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And in Minnesota, strong winds could push the low to 22017 below zero, conditions that could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in as few as five minutes.
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Prices for electricity in Germany have dipped below zero — meaning customers are being paid to consume power — more than 100 times this year alone, according to EPEX Spot.
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Mild winters are unable to beat back invasive pests like the hemlock woolly adelgid, many of which will die off only at 4 or 5 degrees below zero.
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In Switzerland almost the entire market for Swiss government debt had fallen below zero, with 30-year debt offering an annual yield as low as 5 basis points.
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It compounded signals that Europe's largest economy has had a soft start to the year, held the euro near $1.12 and sent German Bund yields back below zero.
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Yields on Japanese government bonds of up to almost nine years fell below zero percent after last week's decision by the Japanese central bank to introduce negative interest rates.
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Mr. Koppad and the other soldiers had been posted at an altitude of 19,600 feet, in a spot where nighttime temperatures drop to around 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
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So when below-zero temps and freezing rain arrived, calling for winter hats of the more utilitarian variety, we were sure that the bucket hat craze would die off.
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The ECB has already cut its deposit interest rate well below zero and is buying 60 billion euros a month of mostly government bonds to try and boost inflation.
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Since a firm can leverage its existing distribution channels to attract clients via a zero-cost product and then provide more expensive offerings, going below zero is a possibility.
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However, the annual net inflow of new unauthorized immigrants has essentially stopped since 2009: It's been at or below zero since that year, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Most of the German, French and Japanese yield curve is below zero as those nations have looked to push money off the sidelines and back into their sluggish economies.
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Both the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan were expected to begin normalizing monetary policy in 2019 — reintroducing interest rates that are not at or below zero.
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In June, yields on Japanese government bonds with more than 10 years to maturity dropped to around zero, with even the 20-year yield briefly falling below zero percent.
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Annual core consumer inflation hit 0.8% in May, remaining distant from the BOJ's target despite years of heavy money printing that has pushed borrowing costs to or below zero.
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The plan paired the below-zero short-term rate with a target of a 0% yield for 10-year Japanese government bonds which Japan's banks hold in vast quantities.
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Government borrowing costs in Spain, Portugal and Italy hit record lows after the launch and swathes of the yield curve in countries such as Germany dropped below zero percent.
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Morgan Stanley's forecast of a near-zero funds rate comes amid some speculation that the Fed might take nominal rates to below zero if things deteriorated even more drastically.
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Japanese government bond yields through 10-year maturities have sunk to record lows below zero percent since the Bank of Japan unveiled its negative interest rate policy on Jan.
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This spending could underpin demand as doubts grow over the efficacy of further monetary stimulus at a time some interest rates in the euro zone are already below zero.
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In January, the BOJ pushed interest rates on some bank reserves with the central bank below zero, hoping real interest rates would fall and thus stimulate consumption and investment.
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German bonds with a maturity out to nine years already have a yield below zero, which means investors are willing to pay to hold them instead of being paid.
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Editorial Hoping to kick-start European economies, the European Central Bank took the extraordinary step two years ago of lowering one of its key interest rates to below zero.
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LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - Germany's benchmark 10-year Bund yield fell on Wednesday to a new 2-1/2 year low below zero percent, resuming last week's sharp falls.
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Conventional wisdom held that it would not be possible to lower the federal funds rate below zero — that would mean that lenders would pay borrowers to take a loan!
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The super long JGBs found relatively stronger demand as the bonds still provided positive yields as opposed to shorter-dated bonds, many of which now yield below zero percent.
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With temperatures falling well below zero Celsius at night, Me Li told Reuters on Thursday he has resorted to using coal again and switched his old boilers back on.
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They are also averse to cutting interest rates below zero to help smooth the currency cap exit, as that would go against its signals that policy may be tightened.
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In Chicago, where the river winding through downtown has already frozen over, it could remain below zero from around noon on Tuesday until around midday on Friday, Hennen said.
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The central bank, after reducing its benchmark interest rate below zero, has been flooding the economy with newly created money by buying up trillions of yen of government debt.
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They have adapted to the darkness and cold of wintertime that dips to 60 below zero and then to the explosion of growth and pollination under summer's midnight sun.
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Interest rates across European central banks continue to remain at very low levels and in some cases below zero as economies scramble to push growth and inflation levels up.
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The debate is important because if the ECB introduces tiered rates, that might suggest it is preparing to keep interest rates low, below zero percent, for longer than anticipated.
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With temperatures of 20 to 25 below zero, a homeless encampment near the expressway was using heat courtesy of 150 to 200 portable propane tanks -- many of them donated.
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The plan paired the below-zero short-term rate with a target of a 0% yield for 10-year Japanese government bonds – which Japan's banks hold in vast quantities.
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The yield curve from three to five years dipped below zero during the last cycle for the first time in August 2005, some 28 months before the recession began.
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In fact, Pluto is so cool that its temperature is around 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, and it gets even colder as it orbits farther away from the sun.
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This is high desert country, where a few inches of rain fall in a year, winters dip far below zero and the big city nearby is Alamosa, population 9,6003.
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Temperatures in the Twin Cities area are expected to fall below zero Saturday night, while parts of New Jersey can expect to see several inches of snow, meteorologists said.
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Roughly 2302 million people, from Montana to Illinois, are under wind chill advisories with the northern Plains and Midwest experiencing temperatures that "feel" between 280 and 2120 below zero.
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More than 30% of the US population are forecast to brave temperatures below zero in the next week, while 75% of the Lower 48 will see temps below freezing.
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The temperature is well below zero in many states, thanks to a breakdown in the polar vortex that's flooding the region with the coldest air it's seen in years.
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Much of the Northeast is also facing wind chill advisories over the weekend, with wind chills in New England expected to measure between 20 and 40 degrees below zero.
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The government's approach to lenders comes after the BOJ's aggressive monetary policy drove yields down to below zero for most of the Japanese government bonds traded in the market.
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Faced with domestic long-term interest rates anchored below zero under the Bank of Japan's easy policy, Japanese investors have been striking out overseas in search of better returns.
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Mr. Trump has remained unimpressed, continuing to blast the Fed for not cutting fast enough or far enough, including calling on the central bank to slash rates below zero.
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Earlier, German 1.93-year bond yields dived below zero for the first time since October 2016 after German data showed manufacturing contracted in March for a third straight month.
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"It's nice that it's not 40 below zero all the time," said Charlie Levitz, the owner of Chair 6, a popular local restaurant named for Whiteface Mountain's highest ski lift.
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From rates below zero less than a year ago, inflation across the developed world has risen in recent months toward central bank targets, largely driven by a rising oil price.
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After the 2008 financial crisis policymakers slashed interest rates - sometimes below zero - and also turned to more unconventional measures to boost growth, such as pumping trillions of dollars into economies.
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These swimmers say they, themselves, flourish in air temperatures that often reach 30 degrees Celsius below zero (minus 22 Fahrenheit) or lower in the long months of a Siberian winter.
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About 36 percent of government bond yields in the euro zone are below zero, compared with a peak in June 2016 of 51 percent, according to JP Morgan Asset Management.
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Demand for German real estate has risen over the last year, with investors viewing Europe's biggest economy as a safe haven and interest rates falling in some cases below zero.
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Elsewhere, euro zone bond markets showed little immediate reaction to U.S. GDP data, with Germany's 10-year Bund yield remaining below zero percent as worry persists over the region's economy.
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Most economists surveyed by Reuters expect the Bank of Japan to expand its asset purchases and cut rates further below zero at its two-day meeting that ends on Friday.
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The bank joined counterparts in the euro zone and Switzerland in slashing interest rates below zero in an effort to shake up its sclerotic economy and push up feeble inflation.
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Years of aggressive BOJ easing have already pushed borrowing costs to or below zero, straining commercial banks' margins and leaving it with much little ammunition to counter another economic downturn.
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Most economists surveyed by Reuters expect the Bank of Japan to expand its asset purchases and cut rates further below zero at a two-day meeting that ends on Friday.
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Earlier, Germany reported that domestic manufacturing contracted further in March, driving the benchmark 10-year U.S. government bond below zero and adding to fears of a global slowdown in growth.
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Gundlach said Japanese bank stocks have underperformed the broader market since the BOJ cut interest rates to below zero because investors think banks cannot survive many years of negative rates.
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That is part of a broader decline in global rates that, in recent days, also has sent the yield on 10-year German debt below zero for the first time.
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The yield on 10-year government bonds, for instance, fell below zero in February, meaning investors are lending the government money knowing that they will not be repaid in full.
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Weale said there was also the option of pushing interest rates below zero, following the lead of the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan among other central banks.
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Overnight forecasts call for 30-mph (48 kph) wind gusts and temperatures pushing 10 below zero Fahrenheit (-23 c) along the Norton Sound where competitors will make their final push.
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Alcor has 149 bodies and heads stored at 2150 degrees below zero, including a Chinese science-fiction author, a little girl from Thailand, and baseball icon Ted Williams, among others.
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The central bank's introduction of negative interest rates in February has pushed down yields on many JGBs below zero, meaning investors will incur losses if they keep them to maturity.
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The spread between yields on three-month Treasury bills and 10-year notes fell below zero for the first time since 2007 after U.S. manufacturing data fell short of estimates.
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During this week's brutally dangerous freeze in the Midwest -- it was 9 below zero Thursday morning in Detroit, 11 below in Hell -- Michiganders probably feel like cranking up the heat.
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Despite Kuroda's remarks, many analysts say the BOJ has little ammunition left to fight another recession, with rates already below zero and its huge buying drying up bond market liquidity.
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Fixed income investors have been hunkering down by buying longer-term securities, bringing yields on 10-year government paper to 2.1% for the United States and below zero for Germany.
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A 5-year-old child carried a toddler for half a mile in below-zero temperatures after they were allegedly abandoned in a remote Alaska home, state troopers said Friday.
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Whereas the air temperature in Antarctica routinely drops below -20 degrees Celsius, the temperature beneath the soil and snowpack, where midge larvae live, is just a few degrees below zero.
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The population is ageing rapidly and productivity growth is weak so the neutral interest rate, which neither slows nor stimulates the economy, has fallen to zero or even below zero.
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The BoE is widely expected to cut Bank Rate in November to 0.1 percent from last week's record-low 0.25 percent, but it has ruled out taking rates below zero.
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In fact, an unparalleled forest die-off caused by bark beetles has already taken place in the Rocky Mountains, where below-zero bug killing temperatures, once common, have become rarer.
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Not really: Sky shows emissions rising for longer than most other scenarios in the short term but then plunging faster around midcentury, going below zero earlier than most other scenarios.
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The ECB's deposit rate is already 40 basis points below zero and the bloc's top-rated governments, such as Germany's, can borrow at negative rates for up to a decade.
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A new gif by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the Aqua satellite offers a visual depiction of the dramatic and deadly cold snap, demonstrating temperatures plummeting to forty below zero.
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The BOJ cut a benchmark interest rate below zero last month, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets threatened its efforts to sustainably end deflation.
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The benchmark rose sharply after the central bank jolted markets by cutting interest rates a steep 50 basis points and flagged the risk of going nuclear by taking rates below zero.
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But the respite may be brief as the next arctic blast is expected to impact areas stretching from the Plains into the western Great Lakes, causing temperatures to plummet below zero.
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Money markets show investors expect the ECB will raise its deposit rate, currently -22015 percent and below zero for four years, by only 22016 basis points over the next three years.
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The price of gas, which once boosted firms' profits, briefly fell below zero this spring, when companies were paying customers to take the stuff off their hands amid a supply glut.
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The spread between the yields of shorter- and longer-duration Treasury bonds slipped below zero earlier this year, a so-called yield curve inversion which has presaged recessions in the past.
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Having cut rates below zero percent in January, the BoJ could have focused on balance sheet expansion in April, perhaps by lifting housing loans off private banks' balance sheets, suggested Brooks.
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Exercise physiologist and program director for the Orlando Track Shack Foundation Susan Paul told Women's Health that it's actually safe to workout outdoors until the thermometer hits 20 degrees below zero.
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Sure, a blizzard-y day or a below-zero night might not be our preferred forecast, but at least there's a cloud-like puffer to keep us warm through it all.
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German bonds with a maturity out to nine years have a yield below zero and the average yield of German bonds in circulation turned negative for the first time this week.
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It would certainly be a large consideration in the U.S., should the Federal Reserve ever want to take rates below zero, as U.S. pension savings are about 80 percent of GDP.
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Years of heavy money printing have pushed rates below zero, narrowing financial institutions' margin and leaving the central bank with much less ammunition than its U.S. counterpart to fight another recession.
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Talk of recession in America is rising, as is the implied probability that the Federal Reserve, which raised rates only in December, will be forced to take them back below zero.
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Earlier, Germany reported that domestic manufacturing contracted further in March, driving the benchmark 10-year German government bond yield below zero and adding to fears of a global slowdown in growth.
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Poor manufacturing activity data on Friday from Europe's powerhouse economy had pushed long-dated German bond yields below zero percent in the biggest one-day fall since the start of January.
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Germany is an obvious candidate, as market-based yields on its 10-year paper are around 0.10 percent and yields on all its bonds up to nine years are below zero.
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At least 10 shelters were being readied on tribal land against temperatures that can plunge to less than 35 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-37 Celsius) for days at time, he said.
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Images of the unexpected, the surreal, well up unbidden in your mind - as do things you haven't resolved," he said in his autobiography written with David Dalton titled "Painting Below Zero.
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But there is not much room to deepen negative rates or cut the 10-year bond yield target below zero, given the damage such moves could inflict on Japan's banking system.
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Last week, the New Zealand central bank sent investors scurrying to safe-haven currencies by cutting rates more than expected and indicating that it may take rates below zero if needed.
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Earlier, in response to questions from the audience after his speech on banking regulation, Rosengren said the Fed is unlikely to cut interest rates below zero to combat an economic downturn.
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The Danish central bank has kept its key deposit rate below zero since September 2015 meaning the commercial banks in Denmark have to pay to keep money at the central bank.
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"When you have a big surplus that drives prices down to zero and sometimes actually below zero in Germany ... it will affect Norwegian prices," he said, without saying by how much.
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The Ozero Thermal -20°F Suede Winter Gloves are our top pick because they are affordable, offer unisex sizing, and will keep your hands warm even when temperatures drop below zero.
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While economists have long discussed how to engineer negative interest rates, with the exception of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, nominal or contractually stated interest rates are unlikely to drop below zero.
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Reuters data going back to 2012 shows three- and five-year risk reversals — the cost of taking out an option to buy or sell the pound — have consistently been below zero.
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The National Weather Service reported International Falls, Minnesota, the self-proclaimed Icebox of the Nation, plunged to 37 degrees below zero, breaking the old record of 32 below set in 1924.
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One of the most controversial provisions in the new rules relates to the credit lines some providers offer on their cards, which kick in when a customer's balance dips below zero.
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I brought plenty of notepads and pencils (I'd been warned that pen ink freezes at 20 below zero), but also a satellite phone and a batch of video and photographic gear.
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Lenk said he thought Brexit jitters could drive Bund yields a tad below zero in the near term but expected yields to head higher during the second half of the year.
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It stood at 39% five years earlier, the data showed, before the ECB dragged its deposit rate below zero and embarked on a massive bond-buying program to kick-start growth.
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Then, the scientists attempted to grow the potatoes in below-zero temperatures with high carbon monoxide conditions and air pressure similar to that found at almost 20,000 feet above sea level.
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The Bank of Japan and European Central Bank — which already have interest rates set below zero — have yet to further cut borrowing costs, but they have pledged to support their economies.
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But Lal Bahadur Jirel, a Nepali climbing guide, said incremental steps were not enough to fix an increasingly perilous situation on Everest, where summertime temperatures routinely dip below zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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"Most of us are expecting a negative percentage, 2 or 3 percent below zero, or maybe lower," said Zhu Chaoping, a global markets strategist in the Shanghai office of J.P. Morgan.
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In northern Minnesota, wind chills were forecast to drop to 65-70 degrees below zero, which would rival the coldest wind chill ever recorded in the state (71 below) in 1982.
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"Before the election, you were not getting paid to take risk," Mr. Ryon said, citing the fact that the inflation-adjusted yield for a 10-year municipal bond was below zero.
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The yen has zoomed to eight-month highs versus the dollar, stocks sank into bear territory and 10-year bond yields sank below zero for the first time since Sept 2017.
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More than 80 years ago, prisoners from Stalin's labor camps built the first metal smelter in Norilsk city, where temperatures can drop to 55 degrees Celsius below zero (-67 degrees Fahrenheit).
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If the wind chills range from 15 to 25 degrees below zero, as expected Saturday in much of western and northern Pennsylvania, the onset of frostbite can begin within 10 minutes.
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The treasury secretary said he anticipated that investors might be drawn even more to buying up US bonds following the decision by the European Central Bank to cut rates below zero.
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As a symptom of this malaise, interest rates on 10-year government bonds from countries like Japan and Germany have dipped below zero, reflecting policymakers' lack of concern about future inflation.
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On a separate political front, Powell maintained his policy of not commenting directly on Trump, but he pushed back strongly on the president's new favored Fed policy — interest rates below zero.
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Earlier this year it adopted negative interest rates on certain bank deposits and became the first G7 rich country to have yields on its benchmark 10-year bonds fall below zero.
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When the wind chill makes it feel like it's below zero, a hot coffee isn't really going to do much, or at least it won't for any reasonable amount of time.
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And with German debt with maturities out to 15 years yielding below zero, investors have piled into other core European bond markets in search of a return - driving their yields lower still.
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The little planet rotates much slower than Earth, resulting in a dramatic fluctuation in surface temperatures—from 800 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the day to 300 below zero at night.
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The bank now aims to steepen the yield curve, after a sharp drop earlier this year in long-term yields deep below zero flattened the curve and posed problems for financial institutions.
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Euro zone bond yields extended Monday's declines, which came after China allowed its currency to weaken, pushing both Dutch 103-year and Irish 10-year bonds below zero for the first time ,.
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The payments are an unintended consequence of the Swedish central bank's efforts to kick-start inflation in the local economy by lowering interest rates to below zero per cent two years ago.
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German government bonds, known as bunds, are yielding below zero across the entire yield curve as part of a global trend that now entails about $16 trillion of negative-yielding sovereign debt.
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Every tenth of a percentage point below zero, he estimates, shaves 5% from the earnings of the three "megabanks": Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group.
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The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) decision to take rates below zero was aimed at driving loan demand for households and corporates, a move that the central bank hoped would incentivize consumer spending.
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Anyone that loses power during the storm will have to seek out heat elsewhere, as temperatures plunge well below zero at night, and barely recover above the single digits during the day.
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While guiding teams of dogs nearly 1,000 miles across the state's wilderness, contestants battled high winds and temperatures that reached 10 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 23 Celsius) on the final night.
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Borrowing costs have hit record lows since the European Central Bank announced its corporate bond purchasing programme on March 10, with yields on dozens of eurozone companies' existing bonds falling below zero.
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The central bank shocked investors in January by cutting a benchmark interest rate to below zero, seeking to put an end to two decades of deflation and encourage loan and investment demand.
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But the respite may be brief as the next arctic blast is expected to impact areas stretching from the Plains into the western Great Lakes, causing temperatures to plummet below zero Sunday.
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ECB President Mario Draghi called for patience last month, tempering market expectations - fueled in part by euro zone inflation that remains entrenched at or below zero - that more steps may be coming.
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Yields of JGBs with remaining maturities of around 12 years are now below zero, and investor demand has increased for 20-year and 30-year super longs that still offer positive yields.
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Swiss 50-year yields had fallen below zero in 2016 during the European growth scare, but have until now traded in positive territory even as the rest of the curve went negative.
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Even 9 lives can't withstand 20 degrees below zero -- which is why Chicagoans are on a mission to save hundreds of thousands of stray cats ... with the help of tons of straw.
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In a note this week, Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid said a deeper rally in European government bond markets could be a trigger for corporate bond yields to dip back below zero.
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A gauge of world stocks slipped on fears of a global economic slowdown, while benchmark U.S. Treasury yields sank to fresh 0.13-month lows and German bond yields fell further below zero.
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For these soldiers, part of a remote and isolated team working in brutal weather that includes temperatures 40 below zero and little daylight in winter, it's a mission that's also deeply personal.
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Many analysts say the BOJ has very little tools left to fight the next recession, with its negative rate policy hurting financial institutions' margins and long-term yields already hovering below zero.
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Last week the Bank of Japan stunned markets by adopting negative interest rates on certain bank deposits, joining the ECB, Swiss and Swedish central banks in putting certain official rates below zero.
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Second, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde's asset buying will keep a swathe of euro zone bond yields below zero and increase the allure of UK gilts which still carry positive yields.
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Despite years of ultra-loose monetary policy, including printing money, cutting interest rates below zero and giving banks virtually free cash, inflation has only risen in baby steps in the euro zone.
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Chicago, which was expected to be colder than Antarctica, Alaska and the North Pole on Wednesday, saw temperatures as low as negative 25 degrees with wind chill of 49 degrees below zero.
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In Asia, the yield on Japan's 20-year government bonds fell below zero percent, which essentially means global investors are paying the Japanese government for the privilege of lending it their money.
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The Bank of Japan unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero late last month — effectively charging financial institutions which park money with it — as it struggles to the stimulate the economy.
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This helped pull 10-year yields out of negative territory, but the BOJ would only allow 10-year yields to move in a narrow range of 0.1 percent above and below zero.
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The capital gains amount that would otherwise be included in gross income because of the deemed sale rule is reduced (but not to below zero) by $713,000 for 2018 (indexed for inflation).
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But there is not much room to deepen negative interest rates or cut the 10-year bond yield target below zero, given the damage such moves could inflict on Japan's banking system.
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That equates to around 41 percent of the market, which is a larger share than the 36 percent seen below zero last April when German 10-year yields hit a record low.
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However, in the time since the economy moved beyond potential in 2014, the model's estimate of the neutral rate has remained below zero in all but the first quarter of this year.
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Prices in the forward market have been trading below zero for weeks on expectations there will not be enough pipelines to transport record amounts of gas from the region's shale oil fields.
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The ECB added that while interest rates on much of banks' deposit funding could not go below zero, an increasing number of corporate deposits were remunerated at negative rates, also helping margins.
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When skies turn clear at this time of year, the temperature can plummet to 50 degrees below zero or lower, crossing what residents described as a kind of red line of danger.
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Europe's benchmark bond yield edged back below zero, however, as investors looked towards minutes of the European Central Bank's last meeting to soothe nerves about its eventually winding down its stimulus programme.
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Tradeweb data released on Monday showed nearly 46 percent of the more than 7 trillion euros ($8 trillion) of the bloc's government debt had yields below zero at the end of May.
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A cold front moving in from Canada is expected to bring frigid temperatures with wind chills down to 20 or 40 degrees below zero in New England and parts of the Northeast.
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Forecasts predict a low of negative 257, the lowest temperature on record in Chicago, and 260 to 40 below zero in northern Illinois, where the record is negative 36, set in 1999.
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Here's the Financial Times's roundup: German 10-year Bunds traded at interest rates below zero for the first time after Japan's benchmark fell to a new low of minus 0.185 per cent.
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According to one such study, which was conducted in America and published in 2011, places with a higher proportion of refrigerators with temperatures below zero also had higher rates of pertussis (whooping cough).
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German 10-year Bund yields, the benchmark for the euro zone, remain below zero as worry persists over the region's economy, and was a basis point lower on Friday at minus 0.025 percent.
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This comes after bonds, which are perceived as a safe haven, have once again been back in favor this year with the German government bund yield falling below zero a few months ago.
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AlonePhotographer: Lee Cook (UK)With temperatures well below zero, it's not surprising that photographer Lee Cook was the only person in the vicinity of Plateau Hut in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand.
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The last time the three-month to 10-year yield curve inverted - when the spread fell below zero basis points - was in August 2007, shortly before the low in spreads trumped on Thursday.
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At the January meeting, the BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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The Dutch 10-year bond yield hit a new all-time low at -0.504%, while Ireland's 10-year bonds spent the whole session trading with a yield below zero for the first time ,.
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I, personally, would not buy debt below zero… There's something irrational about it…I'm not sure the monetary rules are the same for a negative rate as they are for a positive one.
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Not so long ago it was widely thought that, if interest rates went below zero, banks and their depositors would simply switch to cash, which pays no interest but doesn't charge any either.
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As fear overwhelmed greed, yields on longer-term Japanese bonds fell below zero for the first time, the yen surged to a 15-month peak and gold reached its most precious since June.
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Last month the Bank of Japan unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets threatened its efforts to overcome deflation.
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But even the politically savvy Amamiya was blindsided by public backlash after the bank, desperate to protect a fragile economy from a strengthening yen, pushed short-term rates below zero in January 2016.
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Bond markets see Brexit as another significant blow to the world economy with German and Japanese benchmark 43-year government debt yields both falling to historic lows below zero over the past week.
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German 10-year yields, already below zero percent since last Friday, fell further in negative territory, while the U.S. bond yield curve remained inverted - a key signal of recession - dampened appetite for risk.
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Mobius said emerging market bonds particularly looked attractive as companies were still paying healthy coupon rates at a time major central bank rates have slashed interest rates below zero or are at troughs.
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Banks would normally pass that reduction on to their depositors but, as depositors by and large refuse to pay for their accounts, they find it difficult to push their deposit rates below zero.
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After mostly holding below zero in 2016, CPI inflation accelerated to 0.8 percent in December, and economists expect economic growth to pick up too from the 2.5 percent posted in the third quarter.
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In Europe, benchmark German government bond yields fell below zero percent for the first time, a signal that skittish investors are willing to pay to park their money in investments they consider supersafe.
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But there are good reasons that the yields on 73-year German bonds dipped below zero percent on Tuesday for the first time, meaning investors are essentially paying Berlin to keep their money.
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LONDON (Reuters) - With the historic fall in Japan's 10-year government bond yield below zero on Tuesday, the value of government bonds around the world registering negative yields is now above $6 trillion.
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The frigid air mass first entered the lower 48 states on Wednesday, and on Thursday morning, air temperatures were in the single digits Fahrenheit in Minnesota, and below zero Fahrenheit in North Dakota.
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The forecasts would reportedly place Chicago among some of the world's frostiest sites, including the South Pole, which is expected to see a high temperature of 4 below zero on the same day.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark rate below zero in another bold move to stimulate the Japanese economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten the central bank's efforts to overcome deflation.
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In a move to ease the supply crunch as temperatures are forecast to plunge deeper below zero, local governments have reined in supplies to industrial users to ensure gas heating for residential use.
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Last April's failure to break below zero snowballed into a sell-off that took Bund yields to above 1 percent in a matter of weeks and caused double-digit losses for many investors.
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When the line goes below zero — an "inversion" in which the yield on the three-month bond is greater than the 10-year — that traditionally signals something is very wrong in the market.Why?
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With temperatures dipping below zero over the weekend, a sneaky feline somehow got inside a claw game machine outside a movie theater in the town of Vrnjacka Banja, the New York Post reports.
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The bank is not expected to make a change in interest rates after taking the aggressive step in January of cutting rates below zero to stimulate an economy long in the economic doldrums.
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The only things Mr. Simmons wanted but was unable to finagle into Tantris were cryotherapy chambers, which expose the body to temperatures at least 200 degrees below zero Fahrenheit for a few minutes.
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At the other end of the temperature spectrum, cold snaps have left children shivering in schools with malfunctioning boilers and drafty windows that do little to protect them when temperatures dip below zero.
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Friday dawned clear and sunny, but the Weather Service forecast more cold for the weekend, with wind chills plunging to 10 to 15 degrees below zero in New York City on Friday night.
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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - Britain's benchmark two-year government bond yield briefly slipped below zero again on Monday as panic in global stock markets continued to send investors piling into safe haven assets.
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The move was also attributable to the fall in the yield of the three-month Treasury bill to below zero on Wednesday for the first time since 2015, to an all-time low.
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It relies on the mind-bending ways some objects act at the subatomic level or when exposed to extreme cold, like the metal chilled to nearly 460 degrees below zero inside Google's machine.
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More than 3,500 flights in and out of Chicago have been canceled, and meteorologists predicted that the city could reach a record low temperature of 27 degrees below zero as of Thursday morning.
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The unconventional weather patterns – including snow, ice, record low temperatures and below-zero wind chills – have shut down interstates, triggered highway crashes, closed airport runways and prompted widespread school and government office closings.
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In practice, it has meant below-zero deposit rates through a wide span of Europe, though the total of negative-yielding debt is down from a high around $17 trillion earlier in 2019.
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Japan became the first G7 nation to auction 10-year government bonds at a negative yield on Tuesday, while German bonds with a maturity of up to nine years have yields below zero.
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The town has been gripped by a carnival atmosphere with fans jamming the streets despite a snow storm on Saturday and temperatures that dipped below zero Fahrenheit (minus 18 Celsius) over the weekend.
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But last April's failure to break below zero snowballed into a sell-off that took Bund yields to above 1 percent in a matter of weeks and caused double-digit losses for many investors.
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The ECB last raised its deposit rate ECBDF=ECBF in July 2011 but quickly reversed course when the euro debt crisis hit, cutting from 0.75 percent all the way to record lows below zero.
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With interest rates below zero, banks increasingly complain that ECB policy is hurting their profitability to the extent that it is actually hampering the flow of credit and thus transmission of its easy policy.
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Japanese bonds passed the negative/positive line for the first time on Tuesday, less than two weeks after the Bank of Japan shocked markets and moved to cut base interest rates to below zero.
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The Federal Reserve, Bank of England and Bank of Japan also carried out massive bond-purchase programs in the wake of the crisis and Sweden's Riksbank pushed its deposit rate below zero in 2009.
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The German 10-year bund yield's first-ever dip below zero on Tuesday is negative for markets because it reflects lack of confidence in European monetary policymakers, Pimco Global Strategic Advisor Richard Clarida said.
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Meanwhile, the yield on the German 10-year bund fell below zero for the first time ever, as fears of a potential British exit from the European Union sent investors towards safe haven assets.
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It's no wonder 73% of people swiftly abandon their New Year's resolutions to get fit: Actually going to the gym feels like an impossible task when the weather is bitter, blustering, and below zero.
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Doubts that the BOJ is capable of weakening the yen have grown since the BOJ shocked markets in January by cutting rates below zero for the first time, which only weakened the currency temporarily.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero last month, stunning investors with another move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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The banking index shed 0.6 percent broadly as Germany's benchmark 10-year government bond yield held below zero percent, a day after a disappointing German Ifo sentiment survey exacerbated growth concerns in the region.
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By Inch's math, he said the remaining GE has an equity value between negative $22.47 a share (a theoretical level below zero) and $27.11 a share, with about $22 a share at the midpoint.
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On January 29th the Bank of Japan (BoJ) said it would cut its benchmark interest rate below zero, to -0.1%, in an attempt to counteract the effects of falling oil prices and China's slowdown.
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The Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates in December and signaled that it intended to tighten credit four times this year, while Japan joined the European Central Bank in cutting rates to below zero.
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While the BOJ courted controversy by pushing rates below zero this year, putting banks offside in particular, the policy has proven a hit with first-time home buyers and homeowners looking to refinance mortgages.
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However, Capital said it expected the increase in British yields to be limited as any significant rise would attract foreign investors at a time when yields on much euro zone debt are below zero.
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The United States, as one of the highest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, must rapidly begin a large-scale mobilization to reduce that to below zero within the next decade.
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According to a local CBS station, low temperatures are expected to reach 20 degrees below zero on Wednesday, which would reportedly be the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Windy City on Jan. 30.
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Temperatures at the university plunged to about minus 21 degrees, with a windchill as low as 51 degrees below zero, this week amid an Arctic front that has hit large parts of the country.
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New Englanders could wake up Tuesday to temperatures that feel as cold as five to 20 degrees below zero, and many parts of the Northeast will remain under wind chill advisories through Wednesday morning.
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Powell in his press call made one statement unlikely to please the president, who has pointed to the fact that weaker economies like the European Union and Japan have set interest rates below zero.
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Natural gas vapor is chilled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, turning it into a liquid that can be pumped aboard specially designed ships that keep it under pressure with minimal change in temperature.
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MONICA DAVEY RUTLAND, Vt. — It was six degrees below zero when Richard Thomas left for his job at the dairy plant here, inside a deep red building at the base of snow-covered hills.
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With the wind chill in the area expected to dive as low as 25 degrees below zero, the Weather Service warned that any exposed skin could be frostbitten in as little as 30 minutes.
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The Bank of Japan loosened policy even further last month by announcing that it would cut its benchmark interest rate below zero, joining a group of European central banks that are also struggling with deflation.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero in January, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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His security team told me that when shooting in Montreal George refused to wear a warm winter jacket unless every actor and extra got the same one even though it was 40 degrees below zero.
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That's bad news for the ECB, which has embarked on a massive asset-buying program that includes corporate bonds, cutting its main interest rate to zero and pushing its key bank deposit rate below zero.
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It chose them over Brazilians and Australians in large part because of the similarity between the climate in Wyoming and central Russia, where temperatures can drop to 20 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 29 Celsius).
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The BOJ cut the benchmark interest rate to below zero last month, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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Meanwhile French 10-year bond yields fell to -0.0956%, Belgian 10-year yields plunged below zero for the first time ever, and Italian 10-year bond yields dropped to a 14-month low of 1.79%.
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" BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said last year that the central bank roughly defines its policy target of "around zero percent" for the 10-year yield as "approximately 20 basis points above or below zero percent.
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned cutting rates below zero carried serious risks, and blamed the recent global slump in shares and other assets on the failure of governments to make bold economics reforms.
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The Ifo Institute's March business climate index unexpectedly rose, soothing nerves after Friday's dismal German manufacturing data, which helped spark a global selloff that hammered stock markets and pushed key benchmark bond yields below zero.
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This was after German 10-year bond yields dived below zero for the first time since October 2016 after German data showed manufacturing contracted in March for a third straight month in Europe's biggest economy.
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LONDON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Yields on bonds issued by some blue-chip firms in Europe could be headed further below zero, with the European Central Bank set to take interest rates deeper into negative territory.
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As 10-year JGB yields hovered around or below zero percent under the Bank of Japan's yield curve control scheme, 40-year JGBs are one of the few remaining maturities that offer returns to investors.
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The prospect of euro zone yields remaining below zero longer than thought has pushed investors towards longer maturities and issuers like Italy which offer higher returns, MPS Capital Services fixed-income strategist Filippo Mormando said.
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The Japanese central bank pushed its benchmark interest rate below zero this year and has been buying trillions of yen of government debt in an effort to shore up consumer prices and stimulate economic growth.
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Many head north and cross the French frontier hidden in trucks, riding buses or on foot, crossing mountains whose highest peak rises to 3,400 meters (11,000 feet) and where winter temperatures often fall below zero.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero last month, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero on Friday, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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So far, Fed chair Jerome Powell has not shown any willingness to even discuss the idea of dropping rates below zero -- especially since it's unclear that negative rates helped Europe or Japan in any way.
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On a below-zero February evening, Eriksson somersaulted in a park because she was learning how to parkour by a muscular bearded man she met via Vint, the platform that pairs personal trainers with clients.
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Kids can read about 211 off-the-map places to visit, including the Russian town of Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place on earth, where schools don't close unless the temperature drops to 28 below zero.
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Then I was doing a movie in Chicago with John Leguizamo, 'Nothing Like the Holidays,' and it was 25 below zero, and I slipped on the ice and I banged my head and was unconscious.
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But it will be a close call as BOJ has less ammunition than the Fed, with its short-term interest rate target below zero and its balance sheet bloated from years of heavy asset buying.
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"For instance, the Air Force needs $41 million to replace a failing central heat power plant boiler at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, where winter temperatures reach 65 degrees below zero," the brief says.
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According to The Washington Post, it's expected to be warmer than usual in the region over the next few weeks, with temperatures in the teens during the day and hitting just below zero at night.
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Doubts that the BOJ is capable of weakening the yen have grown since the central bank shocked markets in January by cutting rates below zero for the first time, which only weakened the currency temporarily.
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But the bank is not expected to start scaling back its stimulus too soon given that inflation is weak, helping to keep a large chunk of the bloc's short-dated bond yields below zero percent.
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TOKYO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Friday that the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) move to cut a benchmark interest rate below zero was appropriate and reached after much discussion.
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More than a month's worth of snow fell on Moscow within just 36 hours at the weekend as the temperature hovered below zero degrees Celsius, the biggest snowfall in the Russian capital since meteorological records began.
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The Ifo Institute's March business climate index unexpectedly rose, soothing nerves after the country's dismal manufacturing data on Friday helped spark a global selloff that hammered stock markets and pushed key benchmark bond yields below zero.
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This is up from just over 600 billion at the end of May and is a further sign of the relentless demand for fixed income that has pushing yields across a broad spectrum below zero percent.
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The long night, in which temperatures can drop 40 degrees below zero or colder, is its own kind of mental challenge, as visibility is largely reduced to a small cone of light glowing from one's headlamp.
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Indeed, an analysis of negative rates post-crisis by Gauti Eggertsson of Brown University and colleagues found that banks generally do not reduce the rate paid on deposits below zero, presumably because they fear cash withdrawals.
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The amount of bonds with negative yields has grown to more than $13 trillion, data from the Institute of International Finance shows, and unlike in 2016 the amount of debt below zero looks poised to grow.
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What's happening: Since European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's latest news conference signaling the central bank is poised to further ease its already negative interest rate policy, bond yields have been dropping below zero across Europe.
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After contracting to -38.7 in the recession of the last decade, the index rose to a post-recession high of 11 in January 2012 and has bounced around since then, dropping slightly below zero three times.
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Selling across these bonds may not automatically trigger a sharp rise in their yields though, Rajan said, pointing to the experience of Treasuries in the latter part of last year when swap spreads moved below zero.
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Meanwhile, French 10-year bond yields had fallen to -0.12%, Belgian 10-year yields plunged below zero for the first time ever, and Italian 10-year bond yields dropped to a 14-month low of 1.67%.
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It has become free for nearly all banks to borrow after the European Central Bank cut its deposit rate below zero and pumped more than one trillion euros into the market to shore up the economy.
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Italy paid the cheapest seven-year yields in 20 months at the auction, thanks to demand from investors hunting for returns amid a sharp erosion in euro government yields - over half of which are below zero.
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Japanese government bond yields through the 10-year maturities have sunk to record lows below zero percent under the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy, introduced in January, potentially lightening the government's debt-servicing cost.
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The policy is increasingly being seen as a viable option for central bankers after Japan's move below zero last week, which also sent the country's 10-year Treasury in negative territory for the first time ever.
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Borrowing costs have hit record lows after the European Central Bank made its initial announcement regarding corporate purchases on March 230, which saw yields on more than a dozen eurozone companies' existing bonds fall below zero.
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That unexpected development is occurring partly because below-zero rates in European and Japanese bond markets have created greater demand for American bonds, raising their prices and driving down yields, which move in an opposite direction.
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Italy paid the cheapest seven-year yields in 22.1 months at the auction, thanks to demand from investors hunting for returns amid a sharp erosion in euro government yields - over half of which are below zero.
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On any given day—even when temperatures dip below zero—license plates from around the country are represented in the parking lot as fans arrive to explore one of the most fabled stadiums in professional sports.
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Safe-haven bonds in Japan and Switzerland saw yields out to 15 and 30 years, respectively, fall below zero, while 10-year U.S. yields hit levels not seen since the panic around the 13 debt crisis.
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In Norilsk, an industrial city in Russia's Arctic region, the temperature plunged to minus 49 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 45 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday, with warnings of a further drop to 67 degrees below zero on Thursday.
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Their work is unlikely to extend to the upper reaches of Everest, where summertime temperatures routinely dip below zero degrees Fahrenheit (nearly minus-18 Celsius) and oxygen levels are a third of those at sea level.
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With much of the Northeast and Midwest feeling like a block of ice, the temperature here in the high peaks of New Hampshire's White Mountains was forecast to drop to 40 degrees below zero overnight Friday.
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Ten-year yields in Germany - the euro zone's benchmark issuer - have been trading below zero percent in the secondary market for the past three weeks and hit a record low last week at around minus 1.163 percent.
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Health workers are in the process of setting up a so-called cold chain, the series of measures needed to keep the vaccine well below zero in a tropical climate without reliable power supplies, the ministry said.
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Piql, the archiving company running the vault, said they think their film could preserve information for up to 1,000 years, due to its unique storage location — the coal mine maintains the temperature of below-zero degrees Celsius.
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They were among more than 800 refugees, many of them Syrian families, who reached Lesbos on Wednesday aboard nearly 20 boats, battered by wind and snow as temperatures plunged below zero Celsius, IFRC spokeswoman Caroline Haga said.
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"You're at the middle of nowhere, the temperature is 20-40 below zero and the altitude is around 10,000 feet," Spencer Klein, one of the study's many authors from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California told Gizmodo.
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A college baseball player in Syracuse, New York, who was last seen leaving a party late Saturday night, was found dead early Monday near the school's baseball fields in temperatures that were well below zero, authorities said.
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De Guindos defended the ECB's aggressive stimulus measures, which saw it push its deposit rate further below zero last month and resume a bond-buying programme that already totalled 2.6 trillion euro despite opposition from several policymakers.
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But with yields on higher-rated paper such as 10-year German debt below zero percent, which essentially means investors are paying to hold those bonds, investors have moved into lower-rated markets to secure a yield.
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Sakurai's addition to the board and Shirai's departure would ease pressure on Kuroda, who faced a 5-4 vote in January, when he pushed through a surprise decision to cut a bench mark interest rate below zero.
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"If policy rates remain negative for a long time, or if a deeper dive below zero is contemplated, the effectiveness of the policy and the stability of the financial system could be at risk," the researchers said.
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Also pressuring JGB yields, German 10-year government bond yields fell below zero for the first time earlier this week, amid growing fears that Britain will vote to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum.
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While attempting the viral trick of pouring boiling water in the air to make steam in below-zero temps, YouTuber Chris Kieger accidentally burned himself because he decided to do it while he was wearing almost nothing.
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The Dutch 22-year bond yield hit a new all-time low at -210%, while Ireland's 2300-year bonds spent the whole session trading with a yield below zero for the first time IE21YT=RR, NL230YT=RR.
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Many institutional investors have shifted their short-term funds to those trust accounts after the Bank of Japan's negative interest rates policy drove down interest rates on call money -their traditional investment tool - to slightly below zero.
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But when a recession arrives, the Federal Reserve may institute below-zero, or negative, interest rates like those seen in Europe after the 2008 financial crisis, said Bishop, who helps run RBC Wealth's $300 billion of assets.
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The polar vortex hitting much of the Midwest has resulted in the deaths of at least 8 people as of Thursday due to temperatures as low as 25 degrees below zero and win chills of negative 50.
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But Broadbent said the BoE would not use it as a back-door way to introduce negative interest rates - something some analysts have speculated about, given Carney's firm opposition to cutting the main Bank Rate below zero.
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One-year inflation swaps at just below zero show the market expects inflation in the short term to fall from current levels of 0.2 percent rather than head towards the ECB's target of just below 2.0 percent.
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SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Feb 189.923 (Reuters) - Australian shares rose more than 2189.92 percent on Monday, climbing for a third consecutive session, as the Bank of Japan's decision to cut a benchmark interest rate below zero buoyed market sentiment.
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Those places and states in the northern Plains and Great Lakes were projected to see highs in the teens or single digits and lows below zero for the rest of the week and into the new year.
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Bars that dip down below zero do not mean those supporters do not care about the moral concern, only that they gave relatively lower ratings to it compared with the rest of our nationally representative survey sample.
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Although some yields for non-benchmark gilts turned negative shortly after the 2016 Brexit referendum, this is the first time benchmark gilt yields - used as references for corporate debt issues of similar maturity - have fallen below zero.
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Although some yields for non-benchmark gilts turned negative shortly after the 2016 Brexit referendum, Monday was the first time that benchmark gilt yields, used as references for corporate debt issues of similar maturity, fell below zero.
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Yields on both the one-month and three-month Treasury bills fell below zero Wednesday, trading at -0.01% and -0.02%, respectively, a week and a half after the Federal Reserve cuts its benchmark rate to near-zero.
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A first reading of inflation in February for the euro zone on Monday will help shape expectations of how much further below zero the European Central Bank is likely to push its deposit rate the following week.
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Before bureaucrats started to relocate in droves, Astana was a crumbling outpost in the middle of the windswept steppe, swarming with mosquitoes in the summer and a tormenting 20 degrees below zero for much of the winter.
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It was not until Mario Draghi took office in 2011 that the ECB ditched German orthodoxy by gradually pushing rates below zero and eventually buying some 2.6 trillion euros of euro zone bonds, mostly issued by governments.
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If Mr Kuroda is unpleasantly surprised again, the bank could cut short-term interest rates even further below zero (its benchmark rate has been -0.1% for almost four years) or expand the scope of its asset purchases.
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The Bank of Japan's move to adopt negative rates on Friday only cemented expectations the European Central Bank would ease further, sending German two-year yields to a fresh trough of nearly 50 basis points below zero.
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Benchmark government borrowing costs this year have fallen to their lowest levels ever in Britain, Japan and the euro zone - below zero in the latter two regions - and are close to record lows in the United States.
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Ten-year yields in Germany - the euro zone's benchmark issuer - have been trading below zero percent in the secondary market for the past three weeks and hit a record low last week at around minus 0.20 percent.
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However, critics says they cannot be cut infinitely below zero and market participants are already complaining of low liquidity even though the Riksbank has yet to complete purchases of more than 30 percent of outstanding government bonds.
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"Given the current very low rate of headline inflation and muted inflation expectations, we expect the BoE to cut interest rates towards zero (but not below zero) fairly swiftly to support economic activity," said Daniel Vernazza at UniCredit.
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Yet if monetary policy below zero is a less effective tool than hoped the Fed is going to do what they may in order to avoid being put in a position where they might want to deploy NIRP.
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It was, alas, relatively warm — around 5 below zero Fahrenheit — when we climbed on snowmobiles to follow Mr. Kuybin, the fisherman, for some 30 miles out of the Yamal village of Salemal as he checked his fishing nets.
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The spread between U.S. 2-year and 10-year note yields has slipped below zero before each of the last five U.S. recessions, although it has taken anywhere from 12 to 24 months for the recession to occur.
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The yield fell below zero earlier in the year under the Bank of Japan's negative interest rates policy, and touched a record low of minus 0.300 percent in July amid turmoil in global markets following Britain's Brexit vote.
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Mitsui has no plans to buy 10-year Japanese government bonds now, which is still trading at a yield slightly below zero percent, but it could consider buying longer-dated bonds if their yields rise further, he said.
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The GDP data, together with a surprise decision by the Bank of Japan to cut a benchmark interest rate below zero in a bold move to stimulate the Japanese economy, buoyed the dollar against a basket of currencies.
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"With roughly $15 trillion on the major central bank balance sheets, with all of these rates at zero or even crazily below zero, you have a very delicate situation which cannot be solved by a sledgehammer," Singer added.
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Moreover, that rate is guaranteed to never drop below zero if deflation were to hit the U.S. "I like the inflation protection," said Leon LaBrecque, a CFP and chief growth officer at Sequoia Financial Group in Troy, Michigan.
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"Out of the 8 reported segments, all of which were profitable even 2 years ago, 6 are now likely either at or below zero in 2020, with leverage actually up since that time," Tusa wrote in a note.
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Since short-term nominal interest rates cannot be pushed much below zero, central banks have resorted to bond purchases to depress long-term borrowing rates and push investors into riskier assets, to give a fillip to the economy.
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Only this year did regulators tell banks to prepare for the possibility that they might reverse course after their December rate hike, and contemplate how Wall Street would deal with interest rates going below zero into negative territory.
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The bond markets remained the main focus though: 10-year German government bond yields remained below zero and key sections of the U.S. yield curve remained inverted -- where short-term borrow costs are higher than longer-term ones.
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The European Central Bank's experience with a somewhat similar scheme, the TLTRO II, showed that even central bank assistance to banks was not enough to stop a negative effect on lending when rates fell below zero, he added.
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But such efforts - typified by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) lowering its policy interest rate below zero late last month - may not be sustainable over the long term, said Nagai, likely strengthening Nomura's resolve to seek growth overseas.
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As trade war tensions escalated in early August, 30-year German and Dutch borrowing costs fell below zero percent ,, bringing the two countries into a club of developed countries, whose entire sovereign bond yield curves pay negative yields.
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Given rates are near or below zero in advanced countries and central banks are already buying vast amounts of government debt, there will be a growing openness about the range of monetary policy measures that can be deployed.
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Conditions in the Twin Cities on Saturday night are expected to bring blowing snow, single-digit temperatures that will fall below zero and gusty winds that will produce a wind chill of about minus 20, Mr. Hewett said.
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Short-dated German bond yields remain deep in negative territory, and Tradeweb data released on Monday showed the share of euro zone government debt with yields below zero has risen to its highest level so far this year.
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"We do think this reluctance will be questioned more and more the longer rates are below zero, but until negative rates are widely passed on, the ECB's effectiveness to deal with future downturns is materially weakened," Holman said.
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The thermometer inside Dr. Olson's cab said it was 30 below zero outside, which meant that lots of people in the vicinity were probably putting another log on the fire, or thinking about it, even as she spoke.
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The study finds that real equilibrium policy rates are near-zero across the developed world and may need to fall further below zero in the euro zone and Japan for interest rate policy there to become "sufficiently accommodative".
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Turmoil in Asia set the tone for the session, as yields on longer-term Japanese bonds fell below zero for the first time, the yen surged to a 15-month peak and gold reached its highest since June.
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The problem was that Ms. Lemus, a home health care worker from Queens, said she never signed up for the line of credit and was unaware that she was borrowing from it every time her account dipped below zero.
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It can be way below zero degrees for months at a time, and if your power goes out your family could die, so people are willing to lend help whenever you ask, because they know the stakes are high.
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The frigid weather, with possibly as many as 22016 states seeing below-zero Fahrenheit temperatures at times, will start in the Pacific Northwest, northern Plains and Upper Midwest, and then creep eastward like a slow motion weather train wreck.
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But the BOJ likely won't top up stimulus easily as years of aggressive easing have pushed borrowing costs to or below zero, straining commercial banks' margins and leaving the central bank with little ammunition to fight the next recession.
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But with yields on higher-rated countries such as 10-year German government debt back below zero percent, which essentially means investors are paying to hold that debt, investors have moved into lower-rated markets to secure a yield.
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Safe-haven German Bunds yields fell below zero for the first time, while industrial commodities and equity markets, seen as more vulnerable to economic risk, dropped after polls showed Britain's "leave" campaign leading before a referendum on EU membership.
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"What Trump is tweeting about...if excessively low rates, even below zero rates, and a lot of QE was this magical elixir, then the Japanese and European economies would be booming right now instead of barely growing," said Boockvar.
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In response, the central bank — the Bank of Japan — announced last month that it would take the unusual step of cutting its benchmark interest rate below zero, joining a group of European countries that are also struggling with deflation.
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In the European migrant crisis, the space blankets have been life-saving, especially for people who made the sea crossing in the winter, when air temperatures were below zero and the water frigid enough to cause death by hypothermia.
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Many in markets are bracing for a near-term dip below zero, as a confluence of political risks, ultra-loose monetary policy, concerns about global growth, and no sign of inflation despite rising oil prices lifts demand for Bunds.
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"More than 70 percent of the bonds in developed-market government bond indexes today have yields of 1 percent or lower, with roughly a third below zero," the company said in its Global Investment Outlook report released in July.
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So I think with $2400 trillion roughly on the major central bank balance sheets, with all of these rates at zero or, even crazily, below zero, you have a very delicate situation which cannot be solved by a sledgehammer.
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The BOJ unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero in January, but the move has failed to boost stock prices or arrest an unwelcome rise in the yen, drawing criticism from lawmakers for confusing, rather than calming, markets.
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While the bulk of companies in the Reuters Corporate Survey said they would keep their money in bank accounts if their lender followed the Bank of Japan in cutting rates below zero, 403 percent said they would withdraw funds.
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The ECB has already spent around 2.5 trillion euros ($2.93 trillion) buying bonds since 2015 and has kept its deposit rate below zero, effectively charging banks for their idle cash, for four years in a bid to revive inflation.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate below zero on Friday, stunning investors with another bold move to stimulate the economy as volatile markets and slowing global growth threaten its efforts to overcome deflation.
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However, the bond markets remained the main focus: 10-year German government bond yields remained below zero and key sections of the U.S. yield curve were still inverted, meaning short-term borrowing costs are higher than longer-term ones.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Germany's 10-year bond yield dived below zero percent on Friday for the first time since October 103, as a survey showing German manufacturing contracted for a third straight month fueled fears about a widespread European slowdown.
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Central banks in the euro zone and Japan have slashed interest rates below zero to boost inflation and economic growth, raising a debate about the ammunition other major central banks such as the Fed have to fight a slowdown.
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The central bank has been flooding financial markets with cheap money, and it has gone so far as to cut its benchmark interest rate below zero, a policy that has been tried in only a few other developed countries.
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Stock volatility has risen sharply and bond yields have fallen below zero in part of the world while rising sky high elsewhere — all indications of distress as Britain approaches a pivotal vote on whether to exit the European Union.
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In New York, hundreds of thousands of people packed Times Square in the 9-degree Fahrenheit weather, with a wind chill of 4 degrees below zero, to watch the 483 ball drop and confetti rain down on the street.
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In New York, hundreds of thousands of people packed Times Square in the 21-degree Fahrenheit weather, with a wind chill of 27 degrees below zero, to watch the 22 ball drop and confetti rain down on the street.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Expectations among people in Britain for inflation over the coming year rose to their highest level in five months in February, according to a survey which followed a pick-up in official inflation data from below zero.
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The 10-year yield has fallen as low as minus 0.3 percent since February, after the Bank of Japan took the unusual step of cutting its crucial short-term rate below zero, and it remained slightly negative on Wednesday.
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As an indication of what's coming to the East on Thursday and Friday, consider that on Tuesday morning, subzero lows were recorded in Iowa and Nebraska, and wind chills dropped to the mid-224s below zero Fahrenheit in Minnesota.
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More than 100 homeless people in Chicago were given a warm place to stay with fresh clothes and food as temperatures dived below zero thanks to Candice Payne, a 34-year-old real estate broker from the Windy City.
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The Weather Service, using the existing wind-chill formula, determined that with winds of about 15 miles per hour, the air temperature could feel as if it were 65 degrees below zero — capable of causing frostbite within 15 seconds.
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More on what happened from Bloomberg: The spread between 25.1- and 22017-year yields fell to negative 13 basis points Monday, dropping below zero for the first time since 21, and the 2100- to 22021-year gap soon followed.
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The winner would move on to face the American Football League champion in Super Bowl II. At game time at Lambeau Field, the temperature was about 21962 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, with winds of about 12 miles an hour.
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Following a rate cut by the European Central Bank, Denmark cut its key deposit rate to -0.75% in September, continuing a negative trend since 2012, which has sent mortgage rates and its entire government bond yield curve below zero.
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Haruhiko Kuroda, installed by Abe as BOJ governor six and a half years ago to spur growth and end decades of deflation, has driven the most aggressive asset purchases among major central banks, pushing some interest rates below zero.
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While the bulk of companies in the Reuters Corporate Survey said they would keep their money in bank accounts if their lender followed the Bank of Japan in cutting rates below zero, 15 percent said they would withdraw funds.
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With growth and inflation in the euro zone slowing, investors have started to speculate on what the ECB could still do, having already bought 2.6 trillion euros ($2.90 trillion) worth of bonds and pushed its key interest rate below zero.
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The 10-year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield fell below zero for the first time on the secondary market three weeks ago and Japan became the first G7 nation to auction 10-year bonds at a negative yield on Tuesday.
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More often, according to a number of current and former Amazon workers who spoke to Gizmodo, hours of UPT are docked for clocking in late to a shift, and can result in termination if an Amazonian's UPT drops below zero.
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Opposition lawmakers have summoned Kuroda to parliament almost daily to grill him on the BOJ's negative rate policy, which has pushed bond yields below zero but failed to boost Tokyo stocks or arrest yen rises as policy makers had hoped.
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Facing a new paradigm of slow growth and the legacy of crises, top central banks have kept rates near or below zero for years, waiting in vain for governments to embrace reforms instead of pointing the finger at monetary policy.
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"We figured she was out there at least a half an hour," Curfman told the outlet, explaining that Noreen had accidentally fallen as she tried to refill her bird feeder on a day where temperatures had already dropped below zero.
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It's an inevitable question: Could U.S. 10-year yields turn negative now that German 10-year yields have fallen below zero for the first time ever and Japanese 10-year yields have dipped to record lows of negative 0.17 percent?
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Shisalanga says fewer toxic emissions are produced than during traditional processes and says its compound is more durable and water resistant than conventional asphalt, withstanding temperatures as high as 70 degrees Celsius (158F) and as low as 22 below zero (-7.6F).
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The nine-member board may also discuss recent declines in Japan's long-term interest rates, as 10-year yields threaten to slide below zero and undermine the BOJ's efforts to steepen the yield curve to give financial institutions breathing space.
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UK spending will sink by 203 percent in 2016 and 3 percent in 2017, the world's largest corporate technology advisory firm now estimates, while expected tepid growth of 0.2 percent across Western Europe will fall to an unspecified level below zero.
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The glut of money printing around the world has pushed up the value of financial assets, keeping demand high even for the likes of euro zone bonds, where yields are close to record lows and in some cases below zero.
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Overdraft fees, which is what banks charge when transactions including debit card purchases cause your account to drop below zero, average $35 — nearly twice the size of the average $20 debit card transaction, according to the Center for Responsible Lending.
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In his speech, Shin also said negative central bank interest rates discourage lending by squeezing the margin between the rate at which banks lend, which falls along with the policy rate, and the rate on deposits, which rarely goes below zero.
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After failing to break below zero, Bund yields jumped above 1 percent last year in a matter of weeks, causing serious damage to investors, who at the time were almost unanimously positioned for a further fall in German borrowing costs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sovereign borrowing costs have sunk deeper below zero in July, reaching a series of historic milestones as central banks signal another wave of monetary easing and forcing global investors to take on riskier debt for lower and lower returns.
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BoE chief economist Andy Haldane in 2015 floated the idea of abolishing physical cash and introducing a state-run digital currency as a way to give more muscle to central banks that cut interest rates below zero to boost their economies.
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The system was expected to also bring freezing rain, wind gusts of 35 miles (56 km) per hour and quickly dropping temperatures that will to dip into the teens and even below zero Fahrenheit in several areas, the service said.
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The chatter around negative rates has become so loud that Janet Yellen addressed the issue on Wednesday saying that while there may be legal issues with lowering rates below zero, the central bank can likely do it if it wanted to.
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