Interesting space with near-zero barriers to entry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Constant Contact Enters The Online Event Registration And Marketing Arena] Reference

The Cessna was trying to land in near-zero visibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2006] Reference

With money markets offering near-zero rates, it's just silly to park any of your nest egg in cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nine ETFs To Buy Now] Reference

But he is today so dependent upon them for support in Iraq that his leverage has been reduced to near-zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fred Branfman: President Bush is Endangering Our Lives: 11. Weakening us throughout the Muslim World] Reference

In the first place, the Fed's policy of zero or near-zero interest rates means negligible returns on savings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High Costs of Very Low Interest Rates] Reference

He noted that private borrowing continues to contract despite near-zero interest rates from the Federal Reserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Bonds Expensive? Stocks Cheap? Both?] Reference

The sun was setting and the cadet knew that soon the near-zero temperatures of night would settle over the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabotage in Space] Reference

Second, the notion of "near-zero interest rates" is also silly to cite as a reason Goldman can make money trading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear John Thain: 2010 Will be Challenging for Goldman Sachs] Reference

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age] Reference

But the 10-year yield is under 3%, even after 21 months of the Fed promising near-zero rates for an "extended period.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fed's Got It Wrong? Not According to Markets] Reference

Menem embarked on a dramatic stabilization program resulting in near-zero inflation, expanded trade and foreign investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mclarty And Berger Briefing On South America Trip] Reference

Obama has supported Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's near-zero interest rate policy; he's basically declared every big bank Too Big.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Gasparino: New York Needs Wall Street] Reference

On January 8th in the Canadian wilderness, he became trapped and nearly unable to move under his ATV in near-zero temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference

The past week brought news of US double-digit unemployment and the Federal Reserve's decision to maintain near-zero interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael T. Klare: Welcome to 2025: American Preeminence Is Disappearing Fifteen Years Early] Reference

The Fed's second option for easing is to adopt new language that implies an even longer-lasting commitment to a near-zero funds rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fed Is Running Low on Ammo] Reference

With near-zero interest rates and a poor economic outlook, the steady flow of money into Japan has itself been something of a mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Pushes Down Yen] Reference

Since the bubble collapsed in 1990, however, businesses and households have been deleveraging, despite near-zero nominal interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Isn't the Time To Privatize Japan Post] Reference

I don't think, as Wall Street's existence was in peril, that Goldman was able to borrow money for trading at "near-zero interest rates.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear John Thain: 2010 Will be Challenging for Goldman Sachs] Reference

(Indeed, one can argue that the Fed's near-zero interest policy — the so-called liquidity trap — is very harmful to the U.S. itself.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fed Is Also a Culprit in the Yuan-Dollar Tussle] Reference

In the longer term, near-zero interest rates will seriously impair important financial institutions such as defined-benefit pension plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Should the Federal Reserve Do Next?] Reference

Working in near-zero visibility with breathing apparatus on, you're practically as good as blind: the floods will make hardly any difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

Still, it is a step in the process, if a glacial one, toward a reversal of the Fed's ultraloose monetary policy via near-zero interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slowly Fed Turns, Away From Easy Money] Reference

The Federal Reserve has lent massively to its member banks at near-zero interest rates without triggering hyperinflation in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Brown: Stock Market Collapse: More Goldman Market Rigging?] Reference

Fuel cells are getting intense attention, especially for transportation, because they offer high efficiency and near-zero air pollutant emissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

For starters, I think the chances of a Lib-Lab coalition are near-zero, and there have to be doubts over whether it would actually attract voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lib-Lab-love?] Reference

In the end, a protracted period of a near-zero interest rates, along with endless economic stimulus, will spawn another bubble and not a genuine recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Pento: The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery] Reference

European Commission, Sustainable power generation from fossil fuels: aiming for near-zero emissions from coal after 2020 (Brussels, January 10, 2007), p. 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)] Reference

At home, the bank is having a tougher time generating profits amid sluggish lending and lower interest margin because of the nation's near-zero interest rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [MUFG Buys Second Failed U.S. Bank] Reference

Those two factors are gone and a third contributor to bank profits -- the Fed's near-zero short-term interest rates -- will likely disappear by the end of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citigroup, Like Most Big Banks, Has a Long Way to Go] Reference

You wouldn\'t think so, from the way that he head-locked the press, cherry-picked crowds for public events, and limited his press conferences to near-zero for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian Ross: The Bobby Jindal Moment: Obama Drags Media Through Unbearable Civility and Reason] Reference

It's hard to see the stock-market rally collapsing while sales and earnings are improving and the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates on hold at near-zero levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcoa May Disappoint, but Broader Signs Look Solid] Reference

Even after two decades of trying to turn its market around, Japan's barrage of stimulus plans and a near-zero percent interest rates have only prolonged the healing process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Pento: There is Only One Cure for a Depression] Reference

Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, for example, is openly dissenting from the Fed's near-zero policy and I'm sure he resists doing anything more to stimulate borrowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Reich: The State of the American Middle Class Means No Amount of Stimulus Will Be Enough] Reference

Very high rates of inflation are indeed costly and destabilizing and hinder the realization of economic and social rights, but that does not mean that near-zero inflation is best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radhika Balakrishnan: Making the International Monetary Fund Accountable to Human Rights] Reference