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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 10 > Treasury bill interest rate goes negative

Treasury bill interest rate goes negative

By Tom Petruno / The Bulletin
December 10, 2008

Wall Street keeps wondering how low interest rates can go on Treasury securities. Now we find out that even zero may not be low enough.

The annualized yield on three-month T-bills dipped slightly below zero at one point Tuesday, to negative 0.01 percent, according to Bloomberg News data. Late in....

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