However, that would mean a return to ground zero for Samsung considering that Windows Phones currently command only about 3% market share.
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The return on cash is close to zero in most of the developed world.
Net of inflation and net of taxes, that's awfully close to zero real after-tax return.
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And because they have zero expected return, they are inferior to the rate of risk-free return.
Cisco Systems shares have generated zero return over the last decade, thanks to fears the company is losing its grip on networking gear.
For any portfolio that includes an allocation to gold, there is a better portfolio, one with a higher expected return or a lower volatility that has a zero allocation to gold.
Another possibility is that you get so much as return of capital that your tax basis shrinks all the way to zero.
Most of the cherished objects which were salvaged from Ground Zero in those first traumatic months will never return to the site.
We may not return specifically to mercantilist models, but whatever comes next will share the essential zero-sum feature.
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That is clearest in the bond market (those buying German two-year bonds on a yield of zero are assured of exactly that return) but it applies to shares as well.
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If the return-of-capital distributions shrink your tax basis down all the way to zero, then you have to start reporting them currently as capital gains.
Go out to 10-year Treasuries and the inflation adjusted rate of return currently is a flat zero.
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