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How low can policy rates go?

The Bank of Japan last week became the fifth central bank to impose negative rates and we now expect it to lower its deposit rate to -0.7% by the end of this year. If policy eventually needed to be loosened further, we think central banks could cut rates as far as -2% without causing major problems.

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