Real interest rates can be negative. Even if the nominal rate is positive, inflation can erode purchasing power. The real interest rate includes inflation to give investors a more accurate measure of ...

The age of negative interest rates might not be over. Martin Schlegel, the head of the Swiss National Bank, discussed that possibility after the bank brought interest rates down by a half point to ...

These are also the rates at which money can be earned from a savings ... If the inflation rate exceeds the nominal interest rate, then the real interest rate becomes negative.

The Bank of Japan announced March 19 it will end negative interest ... of 2 percent can be sustainably and stably achieved, it said in a statement. The negative interest rates, introduced in ...