Having money spread around the world only compounded the woes of fund investors last quarter.
A lacklustre economy has compounded the woes of an industry battling to compete with the internet for advertisers and readers.
A diving header was the highlight of Shearer's treble, as they compounded the woes of Leverkusen, who failed to score a point in the group.
The following summer was dry and hot; crops were poor; and, to compound the woes of the farmers, the price of wheat began to slide downward.
Without wishing to compound the woes of the musical wing of the investors, it offers them this message: You're supposed to be a rock star, a job that brings with it certain responsibilities codified by your forebears.
Much as Wall Street's mortgage securitization machinery helped to fuel questionable lending across the United States, default, or foreclosure, servicing operations have been compounding the woes of troubled borrowers.
With five years of uncertainty before the vote likely to compound the woes, a recession-bound British economy has failed to respond to the harsh austerity measures that the Cameron government has prescribed as the route back to prosperity.
Record costs for energy and metals are compounding the woes of appliance makers, which have already been wrestling with weak results in the American market as the housing slump lowers demand and higher food and gasoline prices cause consumers to curb big-ticket purchases.
"No deal is better than a bad deal," said Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, "The deal that Iran was pushing for was terrible....this result is better, a lot better".The extension was not well received in Tehran, where sanctions have crippled the economy and low oil prices are compounding the woes.
But a sagging oil price will hurt the domestic economy and compound the woes of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Unlike Russia, which had prepared for a rainy day, Mr Ahmadinejad has been investing Iran's oil money in a different future: his own.
