Last week, the Fed released minutes for the mid-October FOMC minutes where they agreed to analyze the possibility of enhancing or replacing their current forward-guidance for zero-bound interest rates.
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Surely, it can maintain a near-zero growth rate to fulfill current market valuations.
Korean giant Samsung is offering its entire line on a two-year installment basis at zero interest -- an effective discount of 20% based on current financing costs.
Introduction of this newly designed "normally-off" memory circuit with no passes for current to leak into cuts leak current to zero in both operation and standby without any specific power supply management.
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The Bank of Japan has promised that it will stick with its current policy of zero interest rates and quantitative monetary easing (basically, printing money) until consumer-price inflation has been positive for several months and is expected to remain positive.
With current interest rates on savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts languishing near zero, expect purchasing-power losses to continue for depositors.
Last month the Fed said that as long as inflation remained modest, it could keep short-term rates near zero until the unemployment rate dips below 6.5 percent from the current 7.8 percent.
Short-term interest rates are already at zero and it has been five months now since mortgage rates reached current record low levels.
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The four current NASA pilots who can operate the modified 747 are ex-military aviators who split their time flying other planes including zero-gravity aircraft and T-38 supersonic jets.
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