The Bank of England's central projection is that house-price inflation will subside to zero by the end of 2004.
Short-term interest rates have been near zero since the end of 2008, and longer-term rates have been depressed as well.
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After declining to virtually zero by the end of last year, infrastructure spending is only growing at a little over 12 percent today.
Instead, they are lower, with the prospect of the rate by which banks borrow remaining near zero until the end of 2012 at least.
Watching the descent of consumer prices this past spring, it looked like CPI growth would approach zero by the end of the summer and then head into negative territory.
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So getting to zero at the end of your budget document, even if you do it in a real way as opposed to a fanciful way, is not in and of itself good.
But the goal is NOT to end at zero each month in your bank account!
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Thus, the disbursement accounts were left with a zero balance at the end of each day.
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When rates are near zero for years on end, that squeezes their margins.
The Tories hope that by taking the power of veto over new schools away from officials, they would end the zero-sum game in which a good school place for one child means one fewer for others.
He describes a couple who reported that they only went to the Ground Zero site at the end of a visit to New York, because going any earlier would have upset them for the rest of the holiday.
After several months and hundreds of dollars, this coach was, in the end, of zero help to her.
By instead paying another corp with a June year end which they zero out in June, they defer income for a year.
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The Isle of Man government has also announced the abolition of the attribution regime for individuals (ARI) in an attempt to end concerns over zero-ten.
"The reason the pace of recovery has slowed is not because of the end of the zero interest rate policy, but because of a sudden cooling in the US economy, " Mr Hayami said.
Can Ben Bernanke begin to back away from the zero interest rate policy before the end of the year?
The scandal comes at a time when the bank needs stability as it moves to end five years of zero interest rates.
Consequently, it has been taken for granted that the natural order of things is for QE2 to be ended, replaced, or modified well before the end of near-zero Federal Funds sometime late this year, next year, or the year after.
The current then flows when it is not supposed to, and the wrong signal (a one instead of a zero) is received at the other end.
News is just coming in that the President has invited President George W. Bush to join him on Thursday at Ground Zero in New York to commemorate the end of Osama Bin Laden and to remember the victims who died there.
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In order to end up with a near-zero cost for your options, the prices of the put and the call will have to be roughly the same.
After all, SBC is still installing 4, 000 DSL connections a day and is on track to have 2 million DSL customers by the end of the year, up from zero in 1999.
In fact, Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig has repeatedly expressed his desire to increase overnight lending rates to 1% from the current zero to 0.25% range by the end of summer.
But a new bipartisan bill gaining traction in Congress may forever end the illusion that digital commerce represents a zero-tax environment.
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"If you keep throwing out more income than you can possibly make, someday your assets will go to zero, " says Mariana Bush, a closed-end fund analyst at Wells Fargo Advisors.
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Overall car sales, it is true, are now declining, but this drop comes only after the very large increase seen at the end of last year, fuelled by special zero-interest-rate loans.
The response of law enforcement at the time, Mr. Kennedy says, involved a number of strategies that, in the end, did not work very well: zero-tolerance task forces, gang sweeps, drug raids.
At the end of the day, though, "Zero Dark Thirty" is a movie.
What a pity that his service should come to a premature end through the collision of personal error and a zero-tolerance culture.
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