Sentence examples for lowered returns from inspiring English sources

The World Bank calculates that import tariffs lowered returns in Brazilian farming by 5% in 1997, whereas tariffs reduced returns in capital-intensive manufacturing by a full 22%.

Legislation such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the financial regulatory reform bill passed in Congress in 2010, combined with evolving bank capital standards, have lowered returns on equity for certain products.

With it, pessimism has lowered return assumptions, ratcheting double-downward estimates of future assets.

It was maybe half a second, then all eyes lowered, returning to the surgical field.

Picking safe assets lowers returns.

But lower risk often leads to lower returns.

China also has begun to pit companies against each other in a formal bidding process, which lowers returns for everyone.

Display advertising also offers lower returns.

Such diversification may be worth the lower returns.

He said firms may be willing to invest for lower returns because stock market returns were lower.

"In an environment of lower returns, dividends will play a major role".