nominal
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Add to that inflation expectation of 2.39% for the next 10 years, and you have the bond’s overall, or nominal, yield of 4.48%.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
"I wouldn't call it nominal orbital insertion," Huot said.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
When government borrowing costs top the growth of nominal GDP, or an economy measured in current dollars, including inflation, that’s another danger signal, say Brown Brothers Harriman’s currency analysts.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
And stocks represent claims on the assets of publicly traded companies—plant, equipment and land—whose nominal replacement costs rise in inflationary terms.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The nominal first boat, Joe’s, kept coming in third.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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