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But when we're close to zero, at the policy rate level, close to zero, our options are more limited than if the policy rate is set higher.
That policy was announced when inflation was close to zero.
And the odds of that happening are close to zero.
Then you bring interest rates down to close to zero.
For U.S. companies, meanwhile, he's expecting close to zero growth.
Growth in the European Union is already close to zero.
Here's the big question: How close to zero could it get?
"I think it was close to zero," Capone told Italian television.
Factoring in consumer inflation, the real increase is close to zero.
In the United States, the mortality rate is close to zero.
Just a couple of years ago, the figure was close to zero.
How would an ETF provider make money at fees close to zero?
The margin on that is going to get dang close to zero.
"In 2013, my bank account was almost close to zero," says Hakamada.
When both parties are treated similarly, this difference is close to zero.
But this has been offset by inflation that is close to zero.
"The chances of the latter happening are close to zero," Hunter wrote.
But for Trump, daily returns have generally been very close to zero.
We want there to be as close to zero risk as possible.
And despite those restructuring attempts, profi-- profitability is-- is close to zero.
Try to keep your email inbox as close to zero as possible.
The rate, close to zero for years, remains low by historical standards.
"After 11 years, the protection was close to zero," Dr. Harpaz said.
The problem is that equilibrium rates have been driven close to zero.
Now it is close to zero, pointing to a marked improvement in sentiment.
Long-term interest rates are very close to zero, there's no inflation problem.
The odds of all of this coming to pass are close to zero.
Furthermore, the consequences of bad behavior by police are usually close to zero.
All told, this is as close to zero extra growth as it gets.
In the case of MercadoLibre and Shopee that number is close to zero.
"I think [the temperature] was close to zero," Capone told an Italian television station.
But Ring cameras are proliferating in the private sphere, with close to zero oversight.
The benchmark overnight lending rate remains close to zero seven years after recession ended.
Short-term interest rates are close to zero in most of the rich world.
The average death toll in terror attacks, it turns out, is close to zero.
That's because I've driven my big three costs as close to zero as possible.
"It was close to zero a little more than two years ago," said Plantenga.
But the Fed is working on interest rates that are already close to zero.
The answer to all of these questions is a number very close to zero.
Temperatures were close to zero when firefighters got the call around 3:45 a.m.
They represent a financing to bridge the coronavirus crisis at close to zero cost.
"Chances of enactment are close to zero," in a second Trump administration, says Valliere.
People who follow that prescription have close to zero chance of living in poverty.
Hou said he expects close to zero percent growth in the sector for 2019.
After repeated failures to prevent attacks, confidence in the intelligence services is close to zero.
"I don't think absolute zero, but very very close to zero in practice," he wrote.
The expected return of nearly every startup at the beginning is frighteningly close to zero.
The government announced the 1% cap at a time when inflation was close to zero.
We know that hedge funds don't charge 2/20 for close-to-zero percent returns.
Central banks have held them close to zero for almost a decade (longer, in Japan).
But they can't effectively do that today, since rates are already so close to zero.
He cited as an example Germany's 10-year bond yield, which is close to zero.
But recently net migration from the EU8 countries has fallen close to zero (see chart).
Most work in economics has assumed that employer labor market power is close to zero.
Major fires broke out as temperatures in the New York region hovered close to zero.
Ten years ago (before the introduction of the iPhone) smartphone sales were close to zero.
But when injured ants had help getting home, the casualty rate was close to zero.
The chances that this thing facilitates a budding romance between anyone are close to zero.
"We only supply oil products there, while the volumes are negligible, close to zero," Novak said.
Throw in other assets, and the country's net worth is close to zero, the IMF reckons.
Of course that wouldn't work in places where interest rates were already pinned close to zero.
If the value of the test is close to zero, there is strong evidence of autocorrelation.
Banks today are able to lend out money borrowed at close-to-zero percent deposit rates.
By the early 1980s, [many of] our vaccine diseases had gone down to close to zero.
Policymakers' ability to respond is constrained because rates, close to zero, cannot be cut much more.
"Chances of the central bank rate cut this year are now close to zero," he said.
Aging people who are released after serving long sentences have a recidivism rate close to zero.
But, since interest rates are already close to zero, there's not much room for more cuts.
Fed officials, in particular, have come to the belief that the level is close to zero.
Sunny Hill said it believed Petroceltic's equity value was close to zero, given its financial position.
So if people are traveling [anywhere outside of China] your risk is close to zero percent.
With supplies now close to zero, it had ballooned by almost 213 percent to 22013 roubles.
Approximate Retail Value of the Prize is nearly impossible to estimate, but is likely close to zero.
Seasonally adjusted monthly price inflation was close to zero or negative at the beginning of the year.
In the past eight years, central banks in developed economies have pushed interest rates close to zero.
The exchange rate is really the important one right now, because interest rates are close to zero.
The President has close to zero leverage over the wavering moderates, like vulnerable Nevada Senator Dean Heller.
The odds of all of this staying quiet for 24 hours has to be close to zero.
That would be fine if interest rates were not so close to zero, but alas they are.
But the marginal cost is close to zero, and the explicit price to users is normally nothing.
Any particular group might show close to zero change in the number of jobs or employment status.
Google Trends shows that interest in the two vice-presidential candidates has flatlined at close to zero.
Last Thursday, the country reported no local transmissions, and the number has stayed close to zero since.
"Ideally your refund or additional taxes owed should be zero or as close to zero as possible."
"The odds that benefits are going to disappear are as close to zero as possible," he said.
This effect is about 10 percentage points for unpaid internships but close to zero for paid internships.
MORE for keeping interest rates close to zero while the during the recovery from the 2008 recession.
She noted that the Fed has less firepower because interest rates are already relatively close to zero.
Even if it's close to zero, the blind-dart projections for Nest and Fiber were too high.
The Obama administration plan has been until the recent past to draw down troops, to close to zero.
The average difference between Alaska and other states in all those comparisons is -0.0004, vanishingly close to zero.
Avoiding dangerous climate change means getting as close to zero carbon emissions as possible, as fast as possible.
It could "get really close to zero next year," but that is unlikely a recession indicator, Gartside said.
"Security is close to zero," says a source who has stayed at the No Address Hotel multiple times.
Even with close to zero interest rates, those factors put Japan's public debt on a highly unsustainable path.
Most suggest that, with interest rates close to zero, fiscal stimulus carries a multiplier of at least one.
"Our findings indicate that the average labor supply effects of the ACA were close to zero," they wrote.
K. trade deal through Congress, which would generally accept Ireland's interpretation of events, would be close to zero.
"The 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero," he said.
That could mean statistically low to nonexistent GDP growth, very low interest rates, and close to zero inflation.
Other major companies are offering funds with costs so close to zero that the difference is scarcely measurable.
"So if people are traveling [anywhere outside of China,] your risk is close to zero percent," Bogoch said.
The Russians "are clever enough to know their influence is close to zero on French voters," he added.
Why would the nation jeopardize this for candidates who have close to zero experience in the free market?
Interest rates so close to zero "has become the preeminent monetary policy challenge of our time," Powell said.
"We're at this point where the future return for equities is likely to be close to zero," he concluded.
Economic growth briefly rose to almost 2% in mid-2017 but has since slipped back to close to zero.
"The likelihood of Germany leaving the EU is as close to zero as you can have it," Friedman said.
But investors broadly think rates will stay close to zero until there is more clarity on a Brexit deal.
Yes, central banks can use interest rates to achieve full employment, if rates are not too close to zero.
Unless you're the one who always cooks for everybody else year after year, that number is close to zero.
That's around its widest in eight months and compares with a spread close to zero in March last year.
In fact, the correlation between families participating in PAN and the employment-to-population ratio is close to zero.
Unlikely. The chances of the US Congress accepting any document coming from Putin as authentic are close to zero.
When you have 15 people and within a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero.
When you have 85033 people and within a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero.
We intend to get global imports of Iranian crude oil as close to zero as possible by Nov. 4.
This sturdy model is dependable, fast, and has close to zero downtime when taking multiple readings in quick succession.
When the magnets are separated by even a moderate distance, the repulsive force is very close to zero newtons.
"The expectation is that Miller will be able to push it as close to zero as possible," Shear said.
Tesla has said the company was "aiming to achieve close to zero usage of cobalt in the near future".
"I see the probability of flights being grounded between the EU and the UK pretty close to zero," he said.
"I think investing in Bitcoin startups has probably gone pretty close to zero," the New York Times's Popper told me.
If the Press Secretary is grabbing her propaganda from InfoWars, the chances of her admitting it seem close to zero.
Inflation in 2016 was expected to be close to zero percent, he said, in a speech to a banking conference.
But what if, as now, there is not much cutting to do, with rates already at or close to zero?
From day one, he put "normalizing" interest rates, which were close to zero, at the centre of the bank's policy.
But with rates very close to zero, that knowledge and expertise can just as well reside in the executive branch.
From day one, he put "normalizing" interest rates, which were close to zero, at the center of the bank's policy.
Some estimates have placed the natural rate in the United States at close to zero on an inflation-adjusted basis.
Our annual trade deficit in goods with Mexico has risen from close to zero in 1993 to almost $60 billion.
Unauthorized immigrants, brought close to zero after the legalization wave of the 1980s, are back at an estimated 11 million.
Markets are pricing in another big Fed rate cut this month, which would push benchmark U.S. rates close to zero.
"If you push it too close to zero, you have little room to go if the need arises," he said.
Not since 1996, before Lance Armstrong began his improbable run of success, has the number crept so close to zero.
The chances are close to zero that we will ever see another candidate with this many question marks and issues.
The net flux of oxygen to the atmosphere varies from year to year, but on average is close to zero.
Conventional interest rates are still so close to zero that there's not much to be accomplished by cutting them further.
He predicted that the company's cryptocurrency-related revenue will be "likely close to zero" in its third-quarter report out Thursday.
Industry leaders have been involved in an aggressive price war that has taken the costs in some cases close to zero.
As this would not be necessary under the customs partnership, the compliance cost of that option would be close to zero.
But once rates get close to zero, it is as if the accelerator of an automobile were pushed to the floor.
The US has more than 250 million passenger cars on the road, making the impact of this, roughly, close to zero.
But Eurocrats do not expect significant movement towards a divorce deal by then: one puts the chances at "close to zero".
Of course, the goal is to have as close to zero injuries as humanly possible, so we need to keep improving.
In private, grandees put the chances of a full Obamacare repeal and replacement in the near future at close to zero.
Rider bookings were growing fast but were just $1 million per month, with close to zero net revenue after paying drivers.
U.S. 10-year Treasury yields were higher, with the yield curve between three months and 10 years now close to zero.
And the moment those 30 seconds are up, the likelihood of you getting your child back is pretty close to zero.
The amount of time a child spends watching television was assumed for many years to have a heritability close to zero.
And a gloomier scenario, with GDP down 1.2 percent, loans up by up to 5 percent, and profit close to zero.
"The chance of 'Medicare for All,' which has damaged the healthcare-services companies, is close to zero" in 2020, he said.
The central bank cut its benchmark interest rate close to zero on March 15 after an emergency cut two weeks prior.
There is close to zero chance in this case that even his Justice Department will be able to prosecute this whistleblower.
Beyond that, what they've said is that they probably don't want to go beyond 0.25% which is very close to zero.
A cold snap kept temperatures close to zero, potentially hurting turnout for what became modestly sized Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren rallies.
"Across 128 domains of the mind and behavior, '78 percent of gender differences are small or close to zero,' " says Grant.
In late February, Trump even insisted that the number of infected Americans would be "close to zero" in "a couple days."
They say we need better, cheaper low-carbon tech if we ever hope to reduce global carbon emissions close to zero.
Passthrough under a so-called normal regime is close to zero: only 0.00057 percentage point given a 1 percent exchange rate shock.
So the authors make their most controversial proposal - when interest rates are close to zero, monetary and fiscal policy should be coordinated.
President Nicolás Maduro said that the official price of petrol in Venezuela, which is close to zero, will rise to international levels.
Rather, Williams said the Fed, when confronted with an economic downturn and interest rates close to zero, should cut quickly and aggressively.
BOES VLIEGHE - UNWISE TO TAKE A STRONG STEER FROM Q2 GDP GROWTH, WHICH COULD BE CLOSE TO ZERO OR EVEN SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE
Market expectations for a rate hike being announced Wednesday afternoon stateside are close to zero, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
The Fed, ECB, BoJ and Bank of England have kept overnight interest rates close to zero for much of the past decade.
The exchange may have to rethink just how its lending guidance works when the metric used, LME stocks, is close to zero.
However, we argue this logic is flawed because the curve is structurally steep when the Fed Funds rate is close to zero.
Inflation has been close to zero for almost two years, posing major policy hurdles for the BOJ's ambitious 2 percent inflation target.
The United States will work with countries that import Iranian oil "to get imports as close to zero as possible" by Nov.
Similarly, many euro-area governments face borrowing costs close to zero for durations of up to 30 years; even longer in Japan.
The vast majority of those people, they argue, are childless adults, and the extreme poverty rate for parents is close to zero.
The chances of the Kanjorski amendment's being used outside of an emergency to achieve broader policy goals are close to zero. Mrs.
Worse, long-term interest rates are already close to zero which severely limits the Federal Reserve's ability to boost the US economy.
And in unregulated markets (which will occur somewhere in U.S.), the price of the product is going to get close to zero.
And when the return for providing credit is close to zero, it is little surprise that investors want their money in gold.
But no attorney general has ever been impeached, and there is close to zero chance this Congress will impeach and remove Barr.
The chances of any Iranian leader shaking hands with President Trump right now are close to zero after the assassination against Soleimani.
Economic View When the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to close to zero during the financial crisis, it was an extraordinary move.
The current amount of U.S. power from offshore wind is close to zero — there's only a single small project operating off Rhode Island.
Swedish builder NCC fell 8.9 percent after it warned on Wednesday its operating earnings for the fourth quarter would be "close to zero".
Since the financial crisis, many sovereign-bond yields have been close to zero, tempting insurers and pension funds to switch to infrastructure assets.
Mr Orban has shown that the international cost of trampling democratic norms and the rule of law appears to be close to zero.
The LG G8503, which has the same battery capacity, would get dangerously close to zero battery nearly every single day I've used it.
We however conservatively assume close-to-zero like-for-like (LfL) sales growth over the medium term due to the competitive market environment.
In December the Federal Reserve raised interest rates from close to zero, where they had been since 2008, to between 0.25% and 0.5%.
But a meta-analysis of 35 studies — involving 3,800 salespeople — found that the correlation between extroversion and sales success is close to zero.
"We continue to use research, safety measures, regulation and education to reduce fatality rates to as close to zero as possible," Stier said.
To stop short of 2 degrees, global coal use will need to be close to zero by 2040, with oil not far behind.
In Japan, for example, fear campaigns have helped cause the rate of HPV vaccinations to plummet from 70 percent to close to zero.
When our representatives started negotiating with the United States in 2018, our confidence that the talks would yield results was close to zero.
That's because interest rates are close to zero and have been since the crash, which reduces the interest rates banks charge on mortgages.
"The increases in demand...have had a strong impact on the equity market because of close to zero net equity supply," JPM told clients.
MOSCOW, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank expects monthly inflation to be close to zero in August, it said in a statement on Friday.
The chances of the Trump administration waking the patient up, let alone facilitating a real road to recovery, are well ... pretty close to zero.
The economy is still struggling - growth is close to zero, the jobless rate exceeds 27 percent and many banks face mountains of bad debt.
For another, the odds of Kaine winning a fifth consecutive presidential term for the Democrats are, if not zero, then very close to zero.
Interest rates across much of the world remain close to zero, and asset-purchase plans could prove politically difficult to expand—particularly in Europe.
The difference between yields on short-term and ten-year bonds, which typically turns negative before recessions, has fallen close to zero, spooking investors.
The bank has signalled that interest rates are likely to be cut again before the end of the year to close to zero percent.
For example, Corning Visions cookware, a descendent of Pyrex Flameware, is designed for stovetop use and has a CTE close to zero, Mauro explained.
Because the marginal cost of distribution for video is close to zero and bundling it with Amazon Prime increases the value proposition for customers.
If the Fed messes up and over-tightens now, it cannot cut rates by very much either, since they are so close to zero.
The multiplier on government spending might in fact be close to zero, as each extra dollar is almost entirely offset by increased private saving.
But it's one already reflected in global debt markets that have sunk long-term interest rates close to zero for many decades to come.
JR: If you look at [mobile] e-commerce, there's a $550 billion market in China today, up from close to zero 10 years ago.
The Fed funds target rate — the interest rate charged by commercial banks to other banks who are borrowing money — was already close to zero.
"For true diversification, you need to allocate across different asset classes that show their correlations are actually close to zero or negative," Bogner explains.
They met in London, Paris and Berlin, with a very low public profile and close to zero leaks, and tried to reach a deal.
Trump said February 29 there were only 211 coronavirus cases in the United States and that the number would soon be close to zero.
BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR CARNEY SAYS IF YOU LOOK THROUGH UNDERLYING TREND, OUR JUDGEMENT IS THAT ECONOMY IS GROWING VERY WEAKLY, CLOSE TO ZERO
But that may not be met positively by markets, since the Fed would be close to zero rates with little cushion for further moves.
However, some officials have expressed unease with having rates so close to zero and the limited room that would provide in an economic downturn.
Even if there was a bipartisan effort, the odds of any meaningful reform being legislated before the next election is essentially close to zero.
"Our rough estimate is that the revision will be close to zero on net," said Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
I had no prestigious jobs, no Ivy League MBA, and a bank balance that was close to zero upon graduating from Pepperdine in 2009.
With interest rates close to zero, a rate cut now could stop a steeper downturn that the central bank would find harder to stem.
"The rest of the economy is experiencing a slowdown and without pharmaceuticals and energy, overall growth would have been close to zero," said Indergand.
Nextel operations in Brazil have 3 million subscribers, but earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is close to zero, the first source said.
The partnership warned in June that first half profits, which are always much lower and volatile than the second half, would be close to zero.
"We'll have to deal with it when that happens, but my hope is that we are as close to 'zero exceptions' as possible," he wrote.
Similarly, those who thought little about their secrets had well-being scores close to zero, while those who thought about them a lot scored -2.
Market assessment for a Fed rate rise had been close to zero, and the idea it has come off zero is "probably good", he said.
"It is expected that inflation remains close to zero in the near term as energy prices are lower than a year ago," the Commission said.
"When we're close to zero at the policy rate level, our options are more limited than if the policy rate is set higher," Lockhart said.
The banking sector's net FC position is close to zero, but banks are exposed to significant credit risk on FC loans to weakly hedged corporates.
"The UK consumer environment remains challenging, particularly in the clothing and homeware markets, and real wage growth is now close to zero," the group said.
"You've seen very strong ULC rises in Turkey, with wages growing 14-43 percent in some sectors and close to zero productivity growth," he said.
The three major European steel producers, Germany, France, and Italy, all operate their steel industries to ensure that net imports are very close to zero.
While the vote may be closer where she's going to college, the probability that the outcome will depend on her vote is close to zero.
The correlation between the MSCI U.K. index and the trade-weighted exchange rate is nearly 40 percent, whereas it's close to zero for small cap.
That puts the real rate close to zero, where Yellen and her dovish allies on the Federal Open Market Committee believe it needs to be.
But they still could have resisted and said no, we need targeted coronavirus relief, not rate cuts that will take us perilously close to zero!
The odds that someone in Miguel's position will be able to fight a separation from Mexico without an attorney is close to zero, Koop said.
Moving too slowly could limit the Fed's ability to cut rates to stimulate the economy during the next recession, with rates already close to zero.
The authors found that around 300 days before the election (mid-January), general election polls are essentially meaningless — their predictive value is close to zero.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the National Gallery of Art come close to zero (considering a margin error of up to 20143%).
"We're receiving close to zero form the private sector," Laurent Sauveur, head of external relations at the UN human rights office, said at a separate briefing.
"In the short term, the impact from the current political impasse on the German economy should be (close to) zero," ING Diba economist Carsten Brzeski said.
It will quickly be back to dealing with the zero lower bound — when interest rates are close to zero — quantitative easing and even negative interest rates.
The Fed remains concerned that with interest rates still close to zero it would have to rely on more unconventional policy tools should the economy slow.
Digital assistants on personal smartphones can get away with mistakes, but for some business applications the tolerance for error is close to zero, notes Nikita Ivanov.
Should the imports go through, they would contravene the stated U.S. aim of bringing Iran's petroleum exports "as close to zero as possible" by Nov. 4.
They counterbalance interest payments received for those loans with the cost of loan notes they have taken to invest, arriving at tax of close to zero.
Yields on most Treasury money funds are still running close to zero even after the Fed's first rate hike in nearly a decade, according to iMoneynet.
Conversely, weak budgetary performance with a close to zero current margin accompanied by direct risk increasing above 70% of current revenue could lead to a downgrade.
In 2008, Qatar's central bank decided not to follow an unprecedented string of rate cuts by the Fed that brought its policy rate close to zero.
Even if we had all the time in the world and an unlimited supply of gasoline, the chance of finding them would be close to zero.
Research from CreditSights shows that investment grade bonds from companies including French bank Credit Agricole and German industrials conglomerate Siemens are all yielding close to zero.
And yet, the chances of Trump taking any of the advice from this report, which was conducted by HIS administration, are somewhere close to zero. Why?
But if something is unique it can't be repeated, so in terms of it serving many people in many places, the value is close to zero.
There are those who want to reduce risks of bad things happening to as close to zero as possible and improve outcomes any way they can.
In unprecedented actions, the Fed kept interest rates close to zero for seven years and engaged in an aggressive bond buying program known as quantitative easing.
The measure was devised by two economists for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta during the period when fed funds rate was kept close to zero.
As long as that continues and the cost of money remains close to zero, courtesy of the Fed, the default path for the market is up.
In 2012 I'd begun to notice, with horror, that when I called a meeting, the number of women in the room was often close to zero.
That means the stuff in the parentheses is essentially equal to 1 (since a small N divided by a large number Nmax is close to zero).
In fact net supply was close to zero this year and last year because of share buybacks and weak IPO activity, JPMorgan pointed out in a note.
Wages grew 2.5 percent during 2015, which isn't a huge number but looks more impressive when you remember that inflation was close to zero for the year.
Some countries pay close to zero overall, while others pay an average of 7 percent or higher, depending on individual trade agreements and the goods they export.
Last week, however, the Bank of Japan stepped in and halted the move through a special debt-buying operation, intent on keeping yields anchored close to zero.
The Labor Department said Friday that prices rose 1.4 percent over the last 12 months, compared with a year ago, when annual inflation was close to zero.
The company has since become an example of the dangers of Silicon Valley hype and Holmes, once a billionaire, now has a net worth close to zero.
With rates close to zero, the response of the European Central Bank (ECB) has been to postpone monetary tightening and to provide more cheap funding for banks.
That Eli threw four interceptions in a game in 2005, three of which went to Darren Sharper, has close to zero bearing on what happens in 2016.
According to an often heard argument, there's no point voting because, in most elections, the chance that one vote will make a difference is close to zero.
Listen, I don't know how to tell you this, but the chances of your idea killing Facebook, or even becoming an actual product, are close to zero.
You'll see we've been going down ever since 40 years ago to now we're at $4.95, and hell, that's pretty darn close to zero as it is.
And yields on Treasury bills and other cash instruments have climbed steadily throughout the last five years, from close to zero percent to more than 2 percent.
I tried to keep the number of unnecessary messages in my inbox as close to zero as possible because it felt like the right thing to do.
"In my view, the neutral level of the federal funds rate is likely to remain close to zero in real terms over the medium term," Brainard said.
Several members of the team spent more than a year creating a giant database of correct pronunciations to cut the errors to as close to zero as possible.
We're not there yet, but we're heading there, Shvets writes: China's total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates are either close to zero or could have already turned negative.
" In this environment, even energy bonds that are trading at distressed levels — 20 cents to 30 cents on the dollar — could be worth "close to zero in reorganization.
The group had warned in June that first-half profits, which are always much lower and more volatile than in the second half, would be close to zero.
As far as subordination/recovery is concerned, since RT10s are deeply subordinated and are intended to be loss-absorbing, we would expect recoveries to be close to zero.
"We are still very close to zero while the normal configuration is around 3 percent or so…one needs to take the journey to go there," he affirmed.
It's real, and if there's more we can do to reduce that number and get it as close to zero as possible, that's worth pursuing in my view.
The real rate of interest rises when expectations of inflation fall and it is hard for policymakers to respond to this as rates are already close to zero.
It's a very bad sign when, way past midway point of a story, you have close to zero grasp on the most basic forces operating the fictional world.
"The chances for Philae to contact our team at our lander control centre are unfortunately getting close to zero," said Stephan Ulamec, Philae project manager, in a statement.
The central bank now forecasts inflation will be close to zero or even lower in the coming months, before rising to the 2 percent target in mid-2017.
Yet, just hours after the court's action, the Senate reaffirmed another truth about American democracy: The likelihood of this Congress passing meaningful gun reform is close to zero.
As a result, the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico relative to U.S. GDP remained constant and close to zero, dropping by only 0.2 percentage points across 20 years.
In a normal election year, Mr. Johnson's candidacy would garner about as much publicity and respect as any third-party candidate's, which is to say, close to zero.
"This scenario would put Japan and Europe in recession, and the U.S. close to zero," Laurence Boone, the organization's chief economist, told reporters during a conference call Monday.
"On February 26, Trump said that there were 15 confirmed coronavirus cases in the US and that they would be "close to zero" in a "couple of days.
Trump's trade negotiations with the Chinese seem to be at an impasse and the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal on his watch is close to zero.
The average effect on juvenile crime during curfew hours was slightly positive—that is a slight increase in crime—and close to zero for crime during all hours.
The yield gap between 10-year Finnish bonds and top-rated German Bunds is at 22 basis points, well above levels seen a year ago at close to zero.
For now, however, its revenue from such mini programs and other built-in services is still "close to zero", notes David Dai of Sanford C. Bernstein, a research firm.
Though the Fed is out of the easing business for now, it has kept its interest rate target close to zero, hiking just once in the last 10 years.
By staying close to zero, the blue line shows that with all costs taken into consideration (GAAP), Salesforce has historically not lost or made money from its operating activities.
The most recent, in 133, showed that outright racial discrimination has dropped close to zero, though subtler differences (such as the number of homes shown to prospective residents) persist.
The computer scientists Dorit Aharonov and Michael Ben-Or (and other researchers working independently) proved a year later that these codes could theoretically push error rates close to zero.
But with inflation close to zero and earnings growth sluggish, it may find this difficult and financial markets only price in a move around the end of the year.
The promise of self-driving cars is to create a world where anyone, anywhere can summon a car and travel safely to their destination, at close to zero cost.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A year ago, the chances of Justin Bieber having any sort of comeback — commercial, tabloidal, let alone aesthetic — were pretty close to zero.
Their goal was to blackmail President Barack Obama into cutting spending at a time when unemployment was still 9 percent and U.S. real borrowing costs were close to zero.
"About a month ago, on February 26, he predicted that in a matter of days the total number of coronavirus cases in the US would be "close to zero.
On a rainy late-October day, with the temperature close to zero, police officers restrained migrants quarrelling over the small amounts of food provided by the local Red Cross.
But he said the Trump administration still predicts 3 percent growth this year and that it saw the chances of a recession in 2020 at very close to zero.
At the same time Fitch is projecting a modest recovery of the operating margin to 203%-2% over 2016-2018, after a close to zero margin during 2014-2015.
In order to reduce the number as close to zero as possible, Trump has pushed a "catch and detain" policy that would allow for indefinite detention of undocumented immigrants.
LONDON, June 20183 (Reuters) - Germany's 10-year bond yield fell towards record lows on Thursday, with a firm tone in the U.S. Treasury market keeping Bund yields close to zero.
The Fed has kept rates close to zero for seven years, sending a message at policy meetings that the economy is not strong enough to support higher rates, Kovacevich said.
In a statement, Stephan Ulamec, Philae project manager at the DLR, explained:The chances for Philae to contact our team at our lander control centre are unfortunately getting close to zero.
But markets reckon that two years from now the Fed's benchmark rate will remain below 2%, the Bank of England's below 1% and the European Central Bank's close to zero.
In 2014-15 yields on ten-year German bonds fell from around 2% to a low of close to zero, in response to expectations of quantitative easing by the ECB.
He said the chance of GAM attracting a buyer without settling the funds issue was "close to zero," although it was still a long shot a buyer could be found.
But I found if I could manage these factors, I could essentially manage my sexsomnia, getting the number of episodes I continued to experience as close to zero as possible.
But ultimately it's a very bad sign when, way past midway point of a story, you have close to zero grasp on the most basic forces operating the fictional world.
Based on the region's estimates, GRP contracted 0003% in 2016 (2015: 0.8%), in line with the national economic trend, and will likely demonstrate close to zero growth in 2017-2019.
To that end, Hassett said chances of the United States entering a recession in 2020 are "close to zero," even though many economists are predicting a downturn by next year.
They kept dropping two days later when he placed Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the administration's response and vowed US cases would be "close to zero" within days.
In a country that has clawed its way out of the financial collapse of 2008 and that can boast of unemployment figures veering close to zero, voter angst is high.
Sales of Rolls-Royces have fallen "pretty close to zero" in China because of the coronavirus, but the company sees early signs of possible recovery, the company's CEO told CNBC.
The US Fed was forced to lower interest rates close to zero in order to counter deflation in the US while Bernanke was adding $1 trillion to US bank accounts.
"The probability that they were able to do this is close to zero," said Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim, the director of Caprisa, an AIDS research center in South Africa.
About two-fifths of the global industry's equity assets are managed passively, up from close to zero in 228, according to Inigo Fraser-Jenkins of Sanford C. Bernstein, a research firm.
"A Brazil 2419.6-year at 2109.35% in an environment where global rates are negative or close to zero is cheap," said Kevin Ritter, an EM portfolio manager at Western Asset Management.
Unless you're a politician or a celebrity, signing up for Twitter probably means spending your first few days on the service (if not weeks or months) with close to zero followers.
So even while a transition is underway to safer forms of energy, it's critical to make sure the risk of our current dominant sources is as close to zero as possible.
As the price of safe bonds rises, rates on those bonds fall close to zero, leaving central banks with ever less room to stimulate their economies when they run into trouble.
"Our goal is to reduce incidents of involuntary denial of boarding to as close to zero as possible and become a more customer-focused airline," the carrier said in the statement.
Tesla, an electric carmaker, is among those saying it is "aiming to achieve close to zero usage of cobalt", helping derail a rally in the metal's price this year (see chart).
The sensitivity of demand to price for domestic heating in Britain has been close to zero since the 2300s, according to research by Roger Fouquet of the London School of Economics.
And I think we are doing really as much as possible to minimize this risk and make it as close to zero as possible that somebody in our community gets harassed.
China's global current account surplus is close to zero and Beijing has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the yuan's value in the face of mounting tariff pressures.
The Federal Reserve started raising the interest rate it controls, the federal funds rate, in December 2015 after keeping it close to zero for seven years to help stimulate the economy.
" Trump even bragged about the 15 cases at the time on US soil, claiming that "the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero.
In the past week, there has been close to zero new local cases reported in China, with the focus shifting instead to stopping Covid-19 cases from being imported from overseas.
Yet with Treasury yields so close to zero, there is so little room for Treasury prices to rise further to offset equity losses, that they simply reduced their holdings of everything.
After a decade when conservative money market funds and similar short-term investments yielded close to zero, it is now possible to earn about 2 percent and even a bit more.
With only one case here in the U.S., the chance that you have this virus is currently as close to zero as possible, even if this feels like a lot more.
Ten of 16 economists polled by Reuters had predicted the central bank would lower the key rate to 0.1% as the strong shekel is helping to keep inflation close to zero.
"Nordhaus argues that because the dynamic of disintegration is slow moving, a moderate discount rate puts the damages at close to zero in net present value terms," the report's authors write.
"Our goal is to reduce incidents of involuntary denial of boarding to as close to zero as possible and become a more customer-focused airline," the airline said in the report.
The Fed has increased its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point over the last two years, after leaving the rate close to zero from late 2008 to late 2015.
"Officially it may be closer to 4.5% and possibly the reality could be close to zero," said Perret-Green, who suggested the government severely overstates its GDP figures to begin with.
In June the partnership warned of a big fall in annual profit before exceptional items and said profit would be close to zero in first half results due on Sept. 13.
While the benefits of cutting a federal funds rate already close to zero is limited, there will be risks associated with the Fed's policy in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis.
Being aware of those different costs, we know which things really bring dramatic greenhouse gas reductions, particularly given the goals, reflected in the Paris climate agreement, of getting close to zero emissions.
With American sanctions against Iran taking effect earlier this month, exports from that country, the world's fourth-largest producer of crude oil last year, were expected to shrink to close to zero.
"The historically low key rate remains a burdening factor for the BRL, especially since the real interest rate is now close to zero," wrote You-Na Park-Heger, an analyst at Commerbank.
"The historically low key rate remains a burdening factor for the BRL, especially since the real interest rate is now close to zero," wrote You-Na Park-Heger, an analyst at Commerzbank.
"By 2040, up to 20% of all hours will have close-to-zero prices and, on the other hand, the number of hours with extremely high prices will also increase," they said.
Much as Mr. Erdogan might like to thumb his nose at the International Monetary Fund, the likelihood of Germany giving Turkey a bail-out with few strings attached is close to zero.
"The transaction costs for issuing and managing such tokens are close to zero, investors can buy and trade equity in private companies and it makes essentially illiquid assets immediately liquid", said Adamovicz.
For a neobank, even including product development, customer acquisition and so on, the equivalent figure is around $50-60, and the marginal cost of maintaining each extra account is close to zero.
Deutsche Bank reduced its baseline forecast for Europe earlier this month, telling clients to expect "close to zero" growth in the first half of the year thanks to trade and Brexit uncertainties.
Kaufman does not doubt the nation could drive emissions close to zero in 10 or 20 years, provided the United States treats climate change as a national emergency and reaches political consensus.
With the economy stuck in dire straits during and after the Great Recession, the FOMC cut the fed funds rate to close to zero and held it there for roughly six years.
Over the very long term, since 1871, the equity-bond correlation has been close to zero, meaning bonds are extremely useful as portfolio insurance, generally moving in the opposite direction to stocks.
With cash rates at close to zero or below in many economies, and trillions of dollars worth of government bonds trading on a negative yield, investors are willing to take some risk.
"The operative effect of a ban is close to zero," said Heinz Buschkowsky, a Social Democrat who gained national attention when he was mayor in the heavily immigrant Berlin district of Neukölln.
In UK balance of payments data, debt securities investment abroad has averaged close to zero over the past two years, said Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, managing director for global asset allocation at JP Morgan.
In late February, Trump claimed there were only 2270 coronavirus cases in the United States — a vast understatement — and promised "within a couple of days," the number would be close to zero.
"We now expect China's oil demand growth in 250 to be close to zero, from already low pre-Covid-22 growth expectations of 350 kb/d," the bank said in a note.
"Roughly a month later, at a press conference on February 26, Trump said that the number of coronavirus cases in the US would be "close to zero" in a "couple of days.
UOB senior economist Alvin Liew told CNBC's "The Rundown" ahead of the policy statement release that chances of a delay was high as price growth in Japan has remained close to zero.
"Effectively, the natural component over this time period is very close to zero, and pretty much all of the long-term trend that we're seeing is attributable to human activity," Schmidt said.
"Once you see that pattern, it usually means you're going to see estimates continue and this year will be close to zero and has a 50/50 chance of being negative," he said.
According to the minutes, many Fed members said they were concerned that the central bank had limited firepower to respond to shocks from abroad because interest rates are already so close to zero.
Japan trades a lot with the EU, but is not in the single market and does not have to accept free movement of labour (it has net migration close to zero, in fact).
As of end-September, Toshiba had shareholders' equity of 1453 billion yen, or just 7.5 percent of assets, which could fall close to zero if the company is forced to log significant losses.
The probability of that happening is close to zero, according to the Cato Institute, yet roughly half of Americans oppose Syrian refugee resettlement, with many specifically citing the fear of terrorists sneaking in.
As of end-September, Toshiba had shareholders' equity of 363 billion yen, or just 7.5 percent of assets, which could fall close to zero if the company is forced to log significant losses.
Deborah says that coming close to zero is a "doable goal," and she thinks what's being done to combat homelessness among veterans is something that can be replicated for the homeless problem nationwide.
SOME PEOPLE WERE PULLING BACK FROM IT. I THINK THE FIXED INCOME BUSINESS IS GOING TO BE IN A CYCLICAL TROUGH WHEN INTEREST RATES ARE CLOSE TO ZERO AND THERE'S NO YIELD CURVE.
"Since the last financial crisis, though, short-term interest rates have been close to zero in much of the developed world," John Higgins, an economist at Capital Economics, said in a note Thursday.
But Mr Williams and a Fed colleague reckon it has fallen persistently: r-star (as he calls it) is close to zero, or about two percentage points lower than it was in 2004.
Now we need to face reality in the wake of the summit's cancelation: the chances of Kim giving up nuclear weapons – the only thing that guarantees his survival – are likely close to zero.
With a collapsing middle class, as well as close to zero job security and none of the benefits associated with it, self-marketing has become, for many, a necessity in order to eat.
Because the rate has been close to zero since 2008, as part of the Fed's strategy to bring the nation out of a recession, there's hardly anywhere for it to go but up.
With the sharp decline in homelessness among veterans in the past decade, advocates are now pushing to accelerate their progress, with the goal of bringing the number as close to zero as possible.
The German central bank said that the tumbling price of oil meant that price inflation would hover close to zero this year, at 0.25 percent, compared to its earlier prediction of 1.1 percent.
Why it matters: Since the financial crisis, Americans looking to earn money by saving rather than investing have been out of luck as interest rates available at banks have hovered at close to zero.
LONDON (Reuters) - The chance that flights will be grounded between the UK and the European Union in the event of a no-deal Brexit is "close to zero", said Cyprus's tourism minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis.
We strongly believe that this does not need to be the case, and we are trying to create a new way of manufacturing that will have as close to zero injuries as humanly possible.
"This doesn't sound like a great deal, but after five years of no growth, and given the current consensus is close to zero earnings growth again this year, it is worth noting," he added.
We know that buying bonds with a negative yield or anything close to zero is just a game of hot potato as these bonds are not assets of the buyers, they have become liabilities.
By some calculations, the real neutral rate is currently close to zero, and it could remain at this low level if we were to continue to see slow productivity growth and high global saving.
Some life insurers may be attracted to scooping up euro zone bonds because funding costs for the euro are relatively low, even as 21-year German bund yields remain close to zero, he added.
"What we've seen is some consolidation in core bonds, investors are not willing to keep buying German Bunds given that yields are close to zero," said Cyril Regnat, a fixed income strategist at Natixis.
It cited a close to zero growth environment, chronically high unemployment and the ongoing speculation the country could lose its last investment grade credit rating as the main problems affecting the South African economy.
That may sound like close to zero, and it is, but the rate is also nearly 17 times more than the 0.06 percent annual interest rate that JPMorgan pays me on my savings account.
"My suggestion is to do zero or close to zero giving in one year and take the standard deduction," said Jeff Fosselman, CPA and senior wealth advisor at Relative Value Partners in Northbrook, Illinois.
" And he said: "And again, when you have 1 people, and the 5 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done.
"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done," Trump said on February 26.
"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done," Trump said at the time.
Bottom line is that the more Hillary Clinton speaks, the less people care what she says and devalues her own role so I think it will have close to zero impact on the race.
Now, a lot of this pent-up cash earning close to zero in terms of interest rates is looking for higher returns in the stock market — with pension funds in particular leading the way.
However, policymakers also said tools like bond purchases and forward guidance might not be enough to eliminate the risk of policy being hampered in the future when the Fed's benchmark rate gets close to zero.
And now that essential sweaters and outerwear are on constant rotation to keep us covered, the chances to get creative with our day-to-day outfits can seem close to zero, much like the temperatures.
"NASA's internal direction to the programs is to work to a 2021 EM-2 launch date, which has a schedule confidence level close to zero at requested funding levels," ASAP says in the report. Ouch.
The release Wednesday of minutes from the April meeting jarred market participants somewhat, with expectations of a June rate hike now pegged at 26 percent after being close to zero for the previous several weeks.
Needless to say, the chances of life emerging on this radiation-soaked hell hole are about as close to zero as it gets, but Gaudi says it's still worthwhile for scientists to study such systems.
Central banks have kept short-term interest rates close to zero since the financial crisis of 2007-08 and have helped depress long-term rates by purchasing $11trn-worth of government bonds through quantitative easing.
"Looking ahead, euro-zone inflation is likely to remain close to zero in the next few months before edging higher in the second half of the year as negative energy effects finally fade," he added.
Tesla, which has more than 33,000 employees, conceded that it's "not humanly possible to stop all bad conduct," but that it would do its "best to make it is as close to zero as possible."
Trump's exposure to populist nationalism is now close to zero, and look for the latest version of Trump to be on display when he speaks to the U.N. General Assembly at 10:30 this morning.
If the global real interest rate is close to zero, then the Fed simply cannot raise its short-term nominal rate very high without inducing disaster, unless inflation is much higher than it currently is.
"We still have very low inflation – close to zero – we have a negative output gap and we still have a Swiss franc that is significantly overvalued," President Thomas Jordan told CNBC shortly after the announcement.
Data showed Germany's economy narrowly avoided slipping into recession in the third quarter but growth remained close to zero and that in central and eastern European economies that rely heavily on its demand are crumbling.
Haldane said the central bank should err on the side of responding too aggressively, given potential doubts about the effectiveness of monetary policy at boosting demand when British interest rates are already close to zero.
As of the end of September, Toshiba had shareholders' equity of 363 billion yen, or just 7.5 percent of assets, which could fall close to zero if the company is forced to log significant losses.
That same day, Trump said that the US had 28 cases of coronavirus (it was actually closer to 2200 at the time) and claimed that would be "close to zero" in a couple of days.
" He continued to disregard his own health experts on February 2900 when he said the 220006 cases in the United States "within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.
Others, though, worry that the already-low rates are generating financial imbalances and the Fed should be extra prudent when it is as close to zero as it has been throughout the post-crisis era.
And the odds of the Senate passing a new federal abortion restriction is close to zero; a recent effort to prohibit abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy fell nine votes short of overcoming a filibuster.
One is the son of a multimillionaire real estate developer from New York City who avoided service in Vietnam and whose experience and knowledge of the military and the national security realm are close to zero.
"To those who say, 'Well, horse deaths are eventual,' we don't accept that and we are doing everything possible to bring that number as close to zero as possible," track spokesman Stefan Friedman previously told CNN.
That explains why the Food and Drug Administration has been working to phase trans fat out of the food supply and doctors recommend that people keep their consumption of it as close to zero as possible.
In a new analysis, researchers at the University of Bath in the UK analyzed previous studies on people who had a blood alcohol content of zero or close to zero after a night of heavy drinking.
"This makes sense given mobile is probably about 40 percent of Google's revenue today, having ramped up from close to zero over the last 5-6 years, with this split between iOS and Android," Cordwell added.
Megafon and Russian rivals have seen their sales growth fall close to zero in a saturated market and are looking at Internet-based partnerships as they seek to move away from a traditional telecoms business structure.
In 2011, effective import tariffs on capital goods were about 4 percent in emerging market countries and about 8 percent in low-income developing countries, compared with close to zero in advanced economies, the IMF said.
The sector reported a RUB85bn net loss in December (annualised ROAE of minus 14%), but it would have been close to zero excluding the RUB66573bn loss of troubled Vneshprombank, whose licence was revoked in January 2016.
Many banks, including ABN Amro which is still 56% government owned, already charge negative interest rates on deposits held by large clients and have lowered the rates they offer on smaller savings accounts close to zero.
Many banks, including ABN Amro which is still 56% government owned, already charge negative interest rates on deposits held by large clients and have lowered the rates they offer on smaller savings accounts close to zero.
A survey of 28.55 studies found that when the impact on jobs was averaged out, the impact was close to zero jobs lost, and the most statistically precise were the most likely to find no impact.
Fleshy fried "shrimp," stuffed in a po' boy, go through a more dramatic metamorphosis: They're engineered from konjac, a fiber-rich tuber that is close to zero in calories and, in its native state, entirely tasteless.
But that has not been enough for AT&T, which wants YouTube to get "as close to zero tolerance for this issue as possible," Fiona Carter, the company's chief brand officer, said in a recent interview.
The U.S. has much higher interest rates than Europe or Japan on a relative basis, but the Fed's overnight lending rate is still close to zero, its historical low from the aftermath in the financial crisis.
IF GLOBAL GROWTH IS OVER 4% AND INTEREST RATES AROUND THE WORLD ARE CLOSE TO ZERO OR VERY LOW, CANT BE SURPRISED THAT THERES A LOT OF INVESTMENT AND A LOT OF FROTH IN THE MARKET.
Muddy Waters said it believed the Chinese dairy to be worth "close to zero" because it had misrepresented its self-sufficiency on alfalfa used as feed for cattle, was over-leveraged and had overstated its spending.
As FP Group editor (and my former boss) David Rothkopf put it on Twitter: Likelihood Flynn undertook his long series of contacts with Russians without his boss' okay is, given his background, pretty close to zero.
"To those who say, 'Well, horse deaths are eventual,' we don't accept that and we are doing everything possible to bring that number as close to zero as possible," track spokesman Stefan Friedman told CNN last month.
Technology has driven marginal costs, distribution costs and transaction costs close to zero and made massive multi-sided markets possible, which means the incentives and business models for internet companies are utterly unlike their old-world predecessors.
However, policymakers also said tools like bond purchases and pledges about future policy might not be enough to eliminate the risk of policy being hampered in the future when the Fed's benchmark rate gets close to zero.
Much of the current debate centers on one common Irish structure, known as a Section 110 company, which cuts tax close to zero on financial deals by creating exemptions from withholding tax, otherwise automatically deducted from income.
They can control the short-run nominal interest rate, but they cannot do anything about the real, long-run interest rate, which is set on global markets and which certainly seems to be quite close to zero.
While central bank officials have said they would expect rates to go close to zero in the event of another recession, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Friday that he does not see a downturn on the horizon.
The new working paper, which covered the broadest group of people over time, found that between ages 25 and 45, the gender pay gap for college graduates, which starts close to zero, widens by 313 percentage points.
"While Brexit-related stockbuilding and other temporary factors are causing significant volatility in quarterly GDP growth, a range of other activity indicators suggest the underlying growth rate of the economy is now close to zero," Vlieghe said.
Production from two of the seven major mining companies at Man Maw, which covers 103 square miles (4 square km), had been "close to zero" since last year and they are struggling to find new resources, officials said.
"When interest rates are stuck close to zero and there is little growth in the world, using cheap debt to consolidate into an even stronger industry position and generate free cash flow seemed attractive to us," they said.
With recycled rainwater to irrigate the gardens and energy-harvesting heat pumps, the mosque says it produces close to zero carbon emissions and boasts better green credentials than the thousands of other mosques that are scattered across Europe.
Copper royalties and taxes are officially projected to fall close to zero in 2016, from 103% of GDP in 2011, and could even be negative from private miners due to loss carry-back provisions in the tax code.
To that end — and no doubt not gone unnoticed by investors — I gather that Chain SMS is already in use by 20 percent of GP practices in England, from close to zero when it launched in February 2018.
According to the complaint, "illiteracy is the norm" in the Detroit public schools; they are the most economically and racially segregated schools in the country and, in formal assessments of student proficiency, have been rated close to zero.
Bursa Malaysia launched dollar-denominated crude palm oil and palm olein contracts over the last decade, but Kuala Lumpur-based traders said trading volumes for both contracts are close to zero due to a lack of market makers.
Market expectations for a June hike, as measured by Fed Fund futures prices, have eased to 26 percent versus 34 percent early on Thursday, according to CME's FedWatch, though they had been close to zero in early May.
The court said errors included an assumption that no financial establishment would act as a guarantor in such as situation and, in Valencia's case, a conclusion that the value of shares in the club were "close to zero".
The US Federal Reserve on Sunday took emergency action to ease some of the pain, cutting its benchmark interest rate close to zero and announcing that it would make borrowing US dollars cheaper for banks around the world.
The yield on the short-term 3-month Treasury bill remained close to zero and he and others said that while the 10-year yield was higher than last week it was still at a relatively low level.
A tax rate has not yet been decided, but it needs to be high enough that there is an incentive for owners to rent their homes, Robertson said, adding that vacancy rates in Vancouver are close to zero.
One measure of the undue burden that has been placed on monetary policy is the fact that the world's major central banks have been forced to maintain their policy interest rates at close to zero for several years.
Production from two of the seven major mining companies at Man Maw, which covers 103 square miles (4 sq km), had been "close to zero" since last year and they are struggling to find new resources, officials said.
With interest rates in the developed world close to zero - even negative in Japan and euro zone - and quantitative easing stimulus already running into the trillions of dollars, many economists argue that central banks have nowhere to turn.
More than a quarter of a century has passed since the Japanese bubble burst in 1990, and the Bank of Japan is still pumping money into the economy and trying to keep ten-year bond yields close to zero.
Super-long JGBs enjoy a degree of demand from investors due to their relatively higher yields, with the benchmark 10-year yield roughly bound close to zero percent under the Bank of Japan's yield curve control scheme, analysts said.
ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking on return from a two-week trip to Syria, Iraq and Iran, told reporters in Geneva: "...the credibility of a Turkish Red Crescent working in Afrin with the Kurdish population is close to zero".
CAPE TOWN, Aug 24 (Reuters) - South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday that the domestic growth outlook remained bleak, reiterating that economic expansion would be close to zero percent this year as forecast by the central bank.
Treatment charges, which is what a smelter charges a mine for converting concentrates into refined metal, have shot up from close to zero this time last year to $210 a tonne, according to Shanghai Metal Market SMM-ZNCONC-IMP.
Moreover, the biggest use of the gas is to inject it into the ground to displace, and thus force to the surface, otherwise-inaccessible crude oil, so the net benefit in terms of global warming is close to zero.
Kavanaugh wrote that "the firing squad is an alternative method of execution that generally causes an immediate and certain death, with close to zero risk of a botched execution," citing comments from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a separate case.
Using a unique scoring index from zero to 100 to calculate a student's sleep regularity, students with very irregular sleep patterns were given lower scores close to zero, while more regular sleepers were given higher scores close to 100.
Thanks to a glut of precautionary saving around the world and limited appetite for investment, the global real interest rate appears to be stuck close to zero (a phenomenon explained in more detail in this week's Free exchange column).
The major oil producer's economy is still struggling and growth is close to zero but many investors are betting that restoring Iran's links with the world and attracting foreign capital and technology will trigger a long-term economic boom.
"In the end, this is all about having factories that are producing the world's highest quality cars as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible, and with as close to zero injuries as we can possibly get," they wrote.
If Iran's exports are pushed close to zero from November, and Saudi Arabia and its allies step up production to fill the gap, remaining spare capacity will fall to 1 million bpd or less by the end of 2018.
Catoctin Creek's European sales are today close to zero, and the few bottles it does sell are at a significant loss because the firm does not want to pass on the cost of tariffs to price-sensitive European customers.
"Some of close to zero percent, some have 50 percent," said Aldridge, associate professor and vice chair for research in geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York.
Its chief investment officer, Ted Eliopoulos, said last summer that investment returns for the previous year were close to zero, and that it would be a big challenge for Calpers to get through the next three to five years.
"We're not sure how long he can endure the conditions he is forced to live in Prey Sar prison, where he is subject to cramped quarters, lack of sleep, subsistence food and close to zero medical care," they said.
That's lifted China's rate of private property ownership to 89.68 per cent according to a survey by Chengdu's Southwestern University of Finance and Economics – among the highest in the world and up from close to zero two decades ago.
Along with a series of cuts that ultimately would take short-term interest rates close to zero, the move was part of an ambitious gambit to take the country out of its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Worldview, Petroceltic's largest shareholder with 29.6 percent, in February made the offer of 3 pence per share, an 83 percent discount to the stock's previous closing price, saying the company's equity value was close to zero given its financial position.
Currently, we still have close to zero interest rates in Europe and in Japan and the (use of) fiscal muscles, after many years of stimulating the economy through (the) use of budgets, has left countries with less gunpowder in that respect.
The whole goal there is to reduce the communication gap between employees to as close to zero as possible, and ensure that it's not just a single person that knows how to get something done that's constantly inundated with requests.
"The top five central banks are all projected to deliver negative or close to (zero) real rates on average over the next 10 years," Shyam Rajan, rates strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said in a note to clients.
"In the end, this is all about having factories that are producing the world's highest quality cars as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible, and with as close to zero injuries as we can possibly get," the investor letter states.
As former Nokia lead designer Marko Ahtisaari used to say, a phone has to be as big as possible when in use and as small as possible when in the pocket — and that requires as close to zero bezels as possible.
"The average number of OIS [officer-involved shootings] for an officer over the course of an entire career is literally close to zero," said Mark Iris, a lecturer at Northwestern University and a former head of Chicago's police review board.
Muddy Waters said at the time it believed the Chinese dairy firm to be worth "close to zero" because it had misrepresented its self-sufficiency in alfalfa used as feed for cattle, was over-leveraged and had overstated its spending.
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it vividly clear that averting catastrophic climate change means rapidly reducing the use of fossil fuels, getting as close to zero as possible, as soon as practicably possible.
For now, revenue from the tidal current business is still close to zero, but DCNS expects to start selling its first turbines in 20183-22018 for pilot projects and from 21 it expects to sell its first commercial tidal turbine farms.
However, an operating margin close to zero and a continued increase in debt with a direct debt to current revenue consistently exceeding 50% (2015: 38%), or its contingent risk requiring ongoing capital injections, would lead us to review Zurich's ratings.
EDPR is valued higher than most power grid operators, which for years have dominated the utilities valuation league, as their mid single-digit returns set by regulators are highly attractive to investors with long-term interest rates close to zero.
The Fed said that the labor market continued to get stronger, yet it made the widely expected decision not to raise its benchmark interest rate, which remains close to zero, and it offered no suggestion that a rate increase was imminent.
But he warned against reading too much into Britain's weak second-quarter growth rate which could be close to zero "or even slightly negative" due to swings in car production and inventory build-ups around the original Brexit deadline in March.
Today, however, the boom in US oil production means that a spike in prices is mostly a wash in the national accounts, representing a transfer of income from oil consumers to producers, with a net growth impact close to zero.
That could be the continuing shift in Federal Reserve policy that kept short-term interest rates close to zero percent for nine years and led the central bank to buy trillions of dollars of bonds in its quantitative easing program.
Researchers at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention have already predicted that the outbreak could rebound in China — where new cases have been close to zero for the past week — once residents go back to work and school.
The investment cost to the country of 210 million people could drop to just over 222 billion crowns if cars are charged in the evening, and may fall close to zero if batteries are only plugged in at night, NVE said.
"Even though they would never admit it to the public, the chances of Fed officials sanctioning a rate hike next year during a politically-charge election campaign are close to zero," said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics.
However, an operating margin close to zero and a continued increase in debt with a direct debt to current revenue consistently exceeding 287% (60311: 244%), or its contingent risk requiring ongoing capital injections, would lead us to review Zurich's ratings.
"One of the big challenges, and a very interesting area of development for esports, is the number of women being pro, which is close to zero right now," the Frenchman told Reuters at an event to showcase Vitality's partnership with Renault.
If we raised tariffs on China from around 3 percent to 45 percent and Mexico from close to zero to 35 percent, that would cost companies importing goods from abroad a little more than $300 billion a year, assuming all else was equal.
It will, however, continue to help companies with renewable energy projects and also support new clients whose reliance on coal is less than 10 percent as long as they have a strategy in place to cut that to close to zero by 2025.
XIAMEN, China, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian oil supplies to North Korea are close to zero and Moscow has not discussed the possibility of curbs on energy supplies to Pyongyang with its international partners, Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Tuesday.
The BOJ last week said it would anchor the 10-year bond yield close to zero percent, to prevent any damage to the economy from a flat or negative yield curve, in yet another overhaul of its monetary policy aimed at boosting inflation.
"What is really worrying is that pace has still been enough to reduce the unemployment rate further, suggesting that the economy's potential growth rate could conceivably be close to zero," Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note.
If the results released by the TSE at each stage of the count were a representative sample of the country, the chance of such a shift from Mr Nasralla in early results to Mr Hernández in later ones would be close to zero.
"Right now the term premium is estimated to be quite low, close to zero, and that means that structurally, and this can be true going forward, that the yield curve is likely to be flatter than it's been in the past," Yellen said.
"A restructuring has a very close to zero possibility given U.S. sanctions, time constraints given the payment schedule, and the fact that Venezuela obviously does not have the technical capacity to negotiate," said Jim Barrineau, co-head of emerging market debt at Schroders.
Saras, controlled by brothers Gian Marco and Massimo Moratti with a 25 percent stake each, said the payments to Iran would contribute to reducing its current net cash position of 140 million euros to close to zero by the end of the year.
STANLEY FISCHER: You know, it was-- the real interest rates that people are estimating as being the equilibrium interest rate for the long term, short-- sorry, the short-term interest rate that people are estimating as equilibrium is very close to zero.
Our company has more than 33,000 employees, with over 10,000 in the Fremont factory alone, so it is not humanly possible to stop all bad conduct, but we will do our best to make it is as close to zero as possible.
If the Trump administration takes a tough line on sanctions and attempts to push Iran's oil exports close to zero, it will be removing a further 2 million bpd of production from a market that is already likely to be very tight.
It is too close to zero, implying that in times of recessions, the Fed will have too little room to respond with countercyclical easing, running into the zero lower nominal bound for its policy rates, preventing a needed larger fall in real rates.
If you've been following the markets in recent months, you'll be well aware that global bonds yields are tumbling, with the German 10-year bund, a benchmark of a safe asset in Europe, seeing its yield at record lows, and close to zero.
"When there are factors, such as the person in need of help is drunk or looks homeless, then the willingness to help is close to zero," Rainer Banse, a professor of psychology at the University of Bonn, told the public broadcaster ARD.
Long-term market interest rates have fallen globally since the 2008-09 financial crisis and are now close to zero in many advanced economies, giving central banks little scope to cut short-term rates to boost the economy in a future downturn.
"This past week the dollar has been going higher because globally people do not anticipate the Fed to go to zero or close to zero like the ECB (European Central Bank) and other places," said Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at RJO Futures.
He also noted that Brazilian interest rates are not at the lower bound, that is at, or close to, zero, usually a pre-cursor for QE. But if the coronavirus shock is big enough, it may not be long before they are there.
"If [the shutdown] extended for the whole quarter, and given the fact that the first quarter tends to be low because of residual seasonality, then you could end up with a number very close to zero in the first quarter," Kevin Hassett told CNN.
The Bank of Japan threw the market on more than one occasion in 2016, with the central bank leaving its monetary policy steady in late April, while saying it would attempt to keep yields close to zero on its 10-year sovereign bond in September.
With interest rates still close to zero and inflation still below target, the Fed would have limited ability to fight an economic downdraft in any case, and it has probably reduced its effectiveness further by signaling its eagerness to raise rates at the first excuse.
Last week, the yield on 10-year Japanese government debt rose close to zero percent, a level not seen since March, in aglobal bond market sell-off triggered by the European Central Bank's decision to refrain from expanding its asset purchase program on Sept. 8.
"There is no reason to draw any conclusions because we see this Easter fluctuation every year, which means there is no real big shift in core inflation, so for the ECB, in terms of any impact on policy decisions, it's close to zero," he said.
Simply due to size and bad luck, there will always be some injuries in a company with over 30,000 employees, but our goal is simple: to have as close to zero injuries as possible and be the safest factory in the auto industry by far.
Morgan Stanley anticipates successive cuts at the September and October FOMC meetings and an even steeper path ahead, with four more rate moves in 2020 taking the funds rate close to zero, or where it was during the financial crisis and stayed for seven years.
If the results released by the TSE at each stage of the count were a representative sample of the country, the odds of the shift it reported from Mr Nasralla in early results to Mr Hernández in later ones would be close to zero.
Satoshi Tsunakawa, who took the helm in June after his predecessor embarked on a series of restructuring steps to clean up Toshiba's books, said Toshiba was considering options to bolster its capital base, which could fall close to zero if Toshiba logs significant losses.
"GDP will shrink again this year in Brazil and Russia, by 3 percent and 2.5 percent respectively, growth will fall to close to zero in South Africa and will be around 23 percent, the lowest in decades, in Saudi Arabia," Moody's said in a statement.
With rates close to zero, the "only option is to move either towards zero or negative rates as the Japanese and selected European countries are already doing in a desperate attempt to force banks to lend", INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir wrote to clients.
"Our company has more than 33,000 employees, with over 10,000 in the Fremont factory alone, so it is not humanly possible to stop all bad conduct, but we will do our best to make it is as close to zero as possible," the post states.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS FOR MOST OF THESE COMPANIES, NOT ALL, BUT MOST, IF THEY SPENT CAPITAL SPENDING ENOUGH TO KEEP THEIR PRODUCTION CONSTANT, SO MAINTENANCE CAP-X WE CALL IT, CASH FLOW, EBITDA, MINUS THAT FIGURE, IS USUALLY CLOSE TO ZERO.
Below are some of the policies set out by the party: - It promised 23.5 billion pounds ($30.15 billion) worth of tax cuts and public spending between 2020 and 2024, saying the impact on the government's day-to-day current budget would be close to zero.
And people close to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who has been a target of Mr. Cuccinelli's in the past, said that the former attorney general's chances of being confirmed were close to zero, creating immediate questions about the next steps in the process.
" Hassett said "millions and millions of people" are typically hired and fired each month, but because hires will remain close to zero and the number of firings will be constant, "you're looking at one of the biggest negative jobs numbers that we've ever seen.
The president takes questions in the White House briefing room for the first time, saying the country's 200063 coronavirus cases would soon be down "close to zero" and that he does not believe the spread of the virus throughout the U.S. to be inevitable. Feb.
In the first few years after the 2008 financial crisis, for example, unemployment was very high, and the Federal Reserve — normally our first line of defense against recessions — had limited ability to act, because the interest rates it controls were already very close to zero.
Countries with the fastest ageing and declining populations, such as Japan, Italy and Portugal, can expect growth close to zero, while ageing more broadly is likely to cause difficulties such as strengthening currencies and increased care needs in emerging markets like China, Russia and Thailand.
Below are some of the policies set out by the party: - It promised 23.5 billion pounds ($23 billion) worth of tax cuts and public spending between 2020 and 2024, saying the impact on the government's day-to-day current budget would be close to zero.
Investors are now willing to hold U.S. government 30-year debt at 2.4% yield - either a bet that inflation won't accelerate between now 2049 or at least that real, or inflation-adjusted, interest rates will stay close to zero for the next three decades.
In framing her as an advocate for women's rights when there is close to zero evidence she has ever actually advocated for women's rights, Trump told us more about himself than he did about her: Women are good for photo ops, not for real positions of power.
Last week, the yield on 10-year Japanese government debt rose close to zero percent, a level not seen since March, in a global bond market sell-off triggered by the European Central Bank's decision to refrain from expanding its asset purchase program on Sept. 0.303.
Expectations for 2020, defined as "longer term" were also cut to 1.8 percent from 1.9 percent, a possible concern for the ECB as it shows a further erosion in confidence that it will be able to revive inflation after years of close to zero price growth.
At the start of January, bets on a UK rate rise in May were close to zero but futures markets are now pricing in a 70 percent chance of an increase after the Bank of England (BoE) adopted a more hawkish stance at its February policy meeting.
Although it is impossible to predict how many of those visiting Rio for the Olympics will be infected, Mike Turner, director of infectious diseases at the Wellcome Trust, a British health charity, reckons the risk is "close to zero" for those who take the recommended precautions.
But it also has cash on its balance sheet of $70 million, plus private equity and hedge fund investments that it values at another $90 million or so, leading Mr. Plants to conclude that the market is valuing the company's banking business at close to zero.
With chances for an EU deal on sharing out those who make it to Europe close to zero, sources said Germany would want the Sunday meeting to produce a commitment from states like Greece and Italy to take back asylum-seekers who make it to Germany.
As Trump ended the press conference, which lasted more than an hour, he walked away without answering as a reporter asked if he could explain why his recent prediction that the number of coronavirus cases would soon go down to close to zero had not come true.
"These high-margin businesses allow Amazon to run its entire store at close to zero margin — and once you do that, it becomes effectively impossible for someone whose sole business is commerce to compete with you," said Youssef Squali, an analyst at the firm SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Those factors keep rates close to zero, where they lose their potency to respond to a recession, the economist argued, adding that there is no sign that "neutral" rates will go back to previously normal levels absent a change in demographics or a scientific or technological breakthrough.
The very subject of "The Executioner's Song" is that vast emptiness at the center of the Western experience, a nihilism antithetical not only to literature but to most other forms of human endeavor, a dread so close to zero that human voices fadeout, trail off, like skywriting.
FURTHER DELAYS Vlieghe said in July that the BoE's response to further delays to Brexit would probably lie between the "smooth Brexit" scenario that could lead to a resumption of rate hikes, and a "no deal" Brexit in which rates could be cut close to zero.
The second reason to gauge the level of Mr. Tillerson's interest is that he is a career employee of an industry whose main products, oil and natural gas, contribute mightily to global carbon emissions and whose interest in regulating those emissions has been close to zero.
Interest rates were held close to zero in the world's largest economy for years, while negative rates prevailed elsewhere; trillions of dollars of debt securities, in some cases even including corporate bonds and shares, have been acquired by central banks with money conjured from thin air.
Decisions made to rapidly contain the impact of the financial crisis or the refugee influx have boomeranged in the form of close-to-zero growth, Turkey's near-blackmailing of the EU and the damage to the EU's global image due to its double standards on the rights of refugees.
That is partly because of sluggish wage growth - many households are facing the prospect of a renewed squeeze on their incomes after a respite in the past two years when inflation stayed close to zero - and partly because of uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations over the next two years.
As far as exits go, some of the biggest came from companies with a more traditional software business model, one involving a large up-front investment of time and financial resources to build, but close to zero marginal costs to maintain and near-infinite potential to scale up.
Called Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, or GIFT City, the financial center has failed to gain much traction since INX, a unit of the Bombay Stock Exchange, became the first exchange to set up there last year, despite offering close to zero taxes, dollar contracts, and top notch infrastructure.
The central bank has been trying to push euro zone inflation back to its 2 percent target with a series of measures including: negative deposit rates; a QE program buying 80 billion euro ($89 billion) of European sovereign and corporate debt every month and interest rates close to zero.
But the J.P. Morgan economists said the fact that core capital goods orders, in the report, moved down 0.7 percent in December means real annualized capital goods spending growth was close to zero in the fourth quarter and they expect just a slight pickup in the first quarter.
If he didn't do those two thi-; I, I'm not saying he can raise interest rates, 'cause Obama with a very small recovery, was playing with funny money because he, he didn't you know, he, he had you know, he had almost close to zero interest rates, right.
"In (the baseline scenario,) the real short-term interest rate in the euro area would remain negative until 264 and remain close to zero over the 2020-25 period, not far from the average between 2007 and 2015," said the authors, from the ECB and the Bank of Italy.
In his new paper, Dube finds that the average effect on employment across the studies he reviews is very close to zero — that is, in most of the high-quality studies he reviews, a few outliers aside, the number of jobs cost by minimum wage laws is negligible.
They attributed this to caution after bond markets experienced one of their sharpest ever sell offs in April and May last year, showing that even safe-haven assets can turn high risk overnight when yields are close to zero and any rise is not compensated by coupon payments.
After a year that has shattered so much received wisdom on both sides of the Atlantic, perhaps there's some comfort to be taken in one nailed-down certainty: The chances of cricket ever displacing baseball, basketball or football in the bosom of the American public are close to zero.
One reason is that as well as offering basic storage and number-crunching, it sells hundreds of other computing services and features, from analytics and e-mail to search and workflow; the marginal cost for providing these add-on services is close to zero because the necessary software is already written.
One concern is that the rise in automation has coincided with a prolonged decline in market volatility as central banks from the United States to Japan have kept interest rates close to zero and spent trillions of dollars dragging long-term borrowing costs lower to try to reboot depressed economies.
If Clinton wins a sweeping victory, we can borrow $100 billion at close to zero interest for a national infrastructure rebuild to deal with some of the nation's shameful deferred maintenance of roads, bridges, airports and rails and its inadequate bandwidth, and create more blue-collar jobs that would stimulate growth.
And a Fed telling you it overtightened and, as you will see below, highlighting the necessity of going big and early (though this should have been happening long ago — what was with that December rate hike??) when the funds rate is so close to zero, and inflation pervasively below target.
The interest in defending Trump and Kavanaugh even while also answering questions about the Rosenstein's departure and next steps for the Mueller probe will be somewhere close to zero for lots of endangered Republicans who want to just get out on the campaign trial and try to keep their jobs.
"The NBH (is) likely to keep money market rates close to zero until 2019 with the help of HUF liquidity tools to avoid FX appreciation as the current account remains in surplus and inflation is unlikely to hit the 313.903 percent policy target before 2019," Citigroup analyst Eszter Gargyan said in a note.
" (Emphasis from the document.) The letter cites a Washington Post article that says the 37.5 percent U.S. tax rate is "more than five times the overall tax rate the company actually paid last year, and much higher than its actual U.S. tax rate, which tax specialists have pegged at close to zero.
Those four factors suggest that, if Walsh makes good on his "get in the President's face every day" pledge, there is a decent chance he could have an influence in the presidential race that extends beyond his chances of actually toppling Trump, which, as I noted above, are pretty damn close to zero.
Gartside expects the U.S. yield curve to flatten more in the coming months and could "get really close to zero next year" as higher interest rates push up the shorter end of the curve while low inflation continues to pressure longer term interest rates lower but that is unlikely a recession indicator.
"With no sign of U.K. movement on customs, the chances of a deal this week are now close to zero; both sides, however, have an incentive to keep talks in play until their formal cut-off point on Friday," Mujtaba Rahman, managing director of Europe at Eurasia Group, said in a note Monday.
"China is willing to pursue some economic reforms that are also desired by the U.S. and the EU, but their appetite for bold reforms are close to zero and therefore we will likely have a decade or two in front of us with (a) series of trade frictions and small compromises," Erixon from ECIPE said.
The conclusions go directly at some central beliefs held by Fed officials: That the "effective lower bound" is somewhere close to zero but not below, and that charging depositors to store their money isn't an effective strategy to boost growth and spark a healthy level of inflation, which the bank estimates to be 2%.
Now if the stated goal was, for example, to get illegal immigration to as close to zero as possible because it otherwise (1) creates an undue economic burden on the country and/or (2) is an unfair jumping the line over those trying to enter legally, those are reasonable assertions that would potentially win over voters beyond the campaign choir.
The resumption of the BoE's government bond purchases was part of a broader and unexpectedly aggressive package announced last week aimed at cushioning the blow from Britain's decision to quit the EU. The BoE also said last week most rate-setting members would favour a further rate cut, to close to zero, if the economy activity slowed in line with its forecasts.
There are now more than 5,000 ETFs on the market, including ones with fees close to zero, ones that are actively managed and ones that focus on niche markets like robotics and obesity, while big players like Vanguard continue to make trading ETFs cheaper — last month the index fund and ETF giants launched commission-free trading on almost all ETFs.
But the sad fact of the matter is that The Americans has had incredible difficulty earning nominations in any category, even with the likes of the more well-known Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys headlining the series, so the likelihood of Mahendru making a play in Supporting Actress even for —spoiler alert — her final season on The Americans would be close to zero.
Sure, Ryan Gosling has close to zero chance in nabbing Best Actor—smart betting is split on Denzel Washington's complex performance in his adaptation of August Wilson's Fences and Casey Affleck's quietly towering turn in Manchester by the Sea—and there's a chance that Barry Jenkins's immersive Moonlight will take either Best Director or (more unlikely) Best Picture by way of categorial vote-splitting.
But for Amazon, a company that relies on capturing a user's interest in the absolute critical moment to execute on a sale, it seems important enough to drop that response time as close to zero as possible to cultivate the behavior that Amazon can give you the answer you need immediately — especially, in the future, if it's a product that you're likely to buy.
The central bank and its President Mario Draghi has been trying to push inflation back to its goal of below but close to 1.73 percent with a plethora of measures and instruments ranging from negative deposit rates to spur lending, a quantitative easing (QE) program that has been buying 80 billion euro ($89 billion) in bonds every month and interest rates close to zero - but without a breakthrough success.
In her first post, dated December 24, 13, she articulated four of "the five R's": refuse, reduce reuse and recycle, and rot (that last one refers to the art of composting.) "I have put my family on a waste diet for the past 12 months, analyzing whatever comes in contact with the bottom of our one home trash can and slowly trying to get it as close to Zero Waste as possible," she wrote. How?
Some smaller banks have tight liquidity buffers, including Moscow Industrial Bank (0003% of total assets, 6% coverage of customer accounts) The sector reported a RUB356 billion net loss in September (4% of end-August equity), but excluding losses at Otkritie (RUB311 billion, 3x group's combined equity) and B&N (RUB118 billion, the group equity was already close to zero prior to rescue), sector net profit was a moderate RUB73 billion (annualised ROAE of 10%).
With a lack of guidance, it's hard to judge the sustainability of each – Power is bad and certainly nowhere near as salvageable as Bulls think, and we also don't believe Aviation can sustain these types of results ... The dividend cut to close to zero will help on this front, but we also don't think the cut is a silver bullet, and the severity highlights the challenged capital position here ... Bottom line, there is still much information to come and wood chop for the new CEO, and color from the call will determine today's trade.
I think-, because the economy is growing, that is true, and corporate profit levels are at a record high, and the unemployment rate is only 3%, which is close to full employment, so the economy is okay, but prices are still very slowly moving, and our inflation-, core inflation rate is positive, core inflation rate excluding fresh food and energy items, but inflation rate excluding only fresh food is still slightly negative, or close to zero, so we are still a long way before we can think about exiting from the current, extremely accommodating monetary policy, and as you said, tapering or whatever.
WE KNOW FOR A CERTAINTY, AND THERE ARE 12.903% OF THE SHARES OUTSTANDING, AND THEY ARE MORE THAN THAT -- PROBABLY 40 PERCENTAGE POINTS OF THE VOTE THAT WILL BE TURNED IN THE FACT THAT 75% OF THOSE SHARES HAVENT VOTED YET, YOU KNOW, ABSENT VANGUARD/BLACK ROCK AND STATE STREET AND NORTHERN TRUST LEAKING TO CNBC, WHICH I THINK THE PROBABILITY OF THAT IS VERY CLOSE TO ZERO, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT ONE SHARE HOLD HER AND ANOTHER IS SUPPORTING US ONTARIO TEACHERS JUST CAME OUT SUPPORTING US, ITS GREAT NEWS, FANTASTIC, GREAT NEWS BUT DOESNT MEAN WELL WIN.
Moreover, compared with March 2017 data, the weighted average original loan-to-value, as calculated by Fitch, increased to 62.8% (from 57%) for programme I's cover pool, while it decreased to 53.3% (from 65.6%) for programme II's cover pool; delinquent loans fell to 5003% (from 1.2%) for programme I and to a percentage close to zero (from 1%) for programme II. The 'B-'/Stable rating of the covered bonds is capped by Greece's Country Ceiling and, at the same time, it represents the covered bonds rating floor for the programmes resulting from NBG's 'ccc' Viability Rating, as adjusted by the two-notch Issuer Default Rating (IDR) uplift.

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