Negative yields – a fascinating situation

By LIN SEE-YAN

I AM often asked: what’s NIR – negative interest rate?

How does it come about? Indeed, how can it even happen? For most, the concept is counterintuitive. Logically, why would anyone buy something with a negative yield; that is, for an investor to pay out more than he gets back?

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