So might the government's requirement that private pension-scheme investors get at least a zero return.
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Cisco Systems shares have generated zero return over the last decade, thanks to fears the company is losing its grip on networking gear.
In fact, having already been funded by taxpayers, the NSF research involved would have zero return if it were simply left on the shelf.
But with a July reading of 87, 000 new jobs and a zero return in August you can plainly see just how far employers are from even maintaining an unchanged unemployment rate.
He apparently sees no reason to agree with me (or Americans who earn fixed incomes from their savings accounts) that consumer spending is being constrained by the Fed giving us zero return on our money.
And because they have zero expected return, they are inferior to the rate of risk-free return.
This risk-averse habit is a legacy of the post-bubble deflation years, when the zero nominal return on cash looked pretty good compared with the alternatives.
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Tens of billions got earmarked for plant and equipment with a zero reinvestment rate of return.
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Taken together, on an annualised basis, employees received the equivalent of 27% of the core equity in the firm, whereas shareholders got a return of zero.
But not so iron clad that the GOP didn't reluctantly consent to 6.2 trillion dimes in tax increases only this January in return for zero dimes of spending restraint.
Net of inflation and net of taxes, that's awfully close to zero real after-tax return.
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On her 2006 Federal income tax return petitioner reported zero taxable alimony income.
After all, it you are satisfied with a 2% rate of return, near zero adjusted for inflation, go ahead.
For many, the real effective return would be zero or even negative.
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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If you wanted an investment that paid a return at virtually zero risk, you would buy an insured bank CD or put your money in a savings account.
Zero tracking error trumps total return as the performance standard.
But he got zero in four areas -- return on equity, cost efficiency, brand management and compliance.
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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Go out to 10-year Treasuries and the inflation adjusted rate of return currently is a flat zero.
The worst return got a score of zero, and all the other stocks were somewhere in between.
By 2022, says one of the authors, return on assets will hit zero.
Mortgage payments are not savings because the return on equity is always zero.
Even a zero interest rate gives them a positive return.
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The return on cash is close to zero in most of the developed world.
Most of the cherished objects which were salvaged from Ground Zero in those first traumatic months will never return to the site.
Although the monthly dividends yield 11.2%, fully 28% of that is a return of your own capital, up from zero in January 2012.
And in large part these profits are the result of the government lending money at near zero interest which can then be reinvested at a higher return with little risk.
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