A zero means there is no relation, or a neutral effect.

These dealings may pose neutral, beneficial or even detrimental effects.

Bacteria with neutral and harmful effects on the host can also use these types of strategies.

They can help some people, hurt some people and have a completely neutral effect on others.

Forests in temperate regions tend to have a fairly neutral effect.

Gray magic may also benefit and harm at the same time, creating a neutral or balanced effect.

This method would have a neutral effect on Government borrowing, effectively forcing investors to put money into the stock market.

Government spending is fully funded by tax revenue and overall the budget outcome has a neutral effect on the level of economic activity.

The interpretation given is that the various energy taxes should be harmonized at Community level, possibly with a neutral global effect.

Many economists argue that the bailout has an essentially neutral effect.