negative interest

Gold's rapid rising, to a great extent is result of US dollar's negative interest rates. coupled with inflation, gold have to rise.

In fact, at this point, inflation-protected U. S. bonds pay negative interest: investors are willing to pay America to hold their money.

At the moment, inflation means that depositors are earning negative interest - losing money - and are less inclined to save.

The poor in parts of Africa and India even pay deposit collectors a fee (ie, a negative interest rate) to mind their rainy-day cash.

The National Union of Students is adamant that loans taken out before 1998, at least, are eligible for negative interest payments.

Some central bankers have also argued that negative interest rates would kill the business model of money market funds.

If all of this seems too outlandish, there is a more prosaic way of obtaining negative interest rates: through inflation.

It used negative interest rates for the purpose of a highly targeted operation.

Back in the 1970s they charged foreigners a fee for having a bank account, in effect imposing a negative interest rate.

The agency cited central bank policies that produced high inflation and negative interest rates as dangerous for the banks.

I have heard the case made that computers would probably not be able to cope with negative interest rates.

But inflation has risen steadily this year, which means bank depositors are essentially facing a negative interest rate return.

The expansion effect of negative interest rate to real estate market is unsymmetrical and the price is driven by the demand side.

Secondly, the negative interest rates associated with the securities market.

The emergence of negative interest rate is an abnormal phenomenon in economy, and it will surely affect the normal economic order.

The problem with negative interest rates, however, is quickly apparent: nobody would lend on those terms.

My article on negative interest rates generated more than the usual volume of email, sometimes quite heated.

A negative interest rate would certainly encourage people to borrow and spend, thereby expanding aggregate demand.

The idea of negative interest rates may strike some people as absurd, the concoction of some impractical theorist.

Commentary on my negative interest rate piece in the NY Times (and the follow-up here) continues to pour in.

A negative interest rate is like a tax on deposits.

First there were negative interest rates in Sweden; soon they might come to the UK.

China has had negative interest rates for seven months and they are likely to remain negative for the foreseeable future.

Rather than lending at a negative interest rate, you could hold onto cash by, for example, stuffing it in your mattress.

Other tools, such as negative interest rates, could also be developed if need be.

That was true in the 1970s, when the Swiss were forced to impose negative interest rates on foreign depositors.

For starters, they can drive right through the zero boundary and impose negative interest rates.

This means that negative interest rates of minus 1 or 2 per cent would probably not trigger a serious dash for cash.

At that time, negative interest rate also occurred while the economic growth was at 15-year high and asset bubble was forming.

Research on the Economic Impact and the Countermeasures for China's Negative Interest Rate

Observations on Negative Interest Rates