Editing Negative number (section)

===Finance===
* [[Financial statement]]s can include negative balances, indicated either by a minus sign or by enclosing the balance in parentheses.<ref name="CarysforthNeild2002">{{citation|last1=Carysforth|first1=Carol|last2=Neild|first2=Mike|title=Double Award|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMTmjC7fgcYC&pg=PA375|year=2002|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=978-0-435-44746-5|page=375}}</ref> Examples include bank account [[overdraft]]s and business losses (negative [[earnings]]).
* The annual percentage growth in a country's [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] might be negative, which is one indicator of being in a [[recession]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-21193525|title=UK economy shrank at end of 2012|work=BBC News|date=25 January 2013|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref>
* Occasionally, a rate of [[inflation]] may be negative ([[deflation]]), indicating a fall in average prices.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/first-negative-inflation-figure-since-1960-1671736.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/first-negative-inflation-figure-since-1960-1671736.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=First negative inflation figure since 1960|date=21 April 2009|website=The Independent|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref>
* The daily change in a [[Share (finance)|share]] price or [[stock market index]], such as the [[FTSE 100 Index|FTSE 100]] or the [[Dow Jones Industrial Average|Dow Jones]].
* A negative number in financing is synonymous with "debt" and "deficit" which are also known as "being in the red".
* [[Interest rates]] can be negative,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27717594|title=ECB imposes negative interest rate|date=5 June 2014 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/think-negative-interest-rates-cant-happen-here-think-again-2015-01-21|title=Think negative interest rates can't happen here? Think again|first=Matthew|last=Lynn|website=MarketWatch|access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-30528404|title=Swiss interest rate to turn negative|date=18 December 2014 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref> when the lender is charged to deposit their money.