Sentence examples for meager interest from inspiring English sources

But attempts to sell WestLB have been moving slowly amid meager interest from investors.

So he was willing to give up a few months of interest — meager interest, to be sure — in exchange for a sense of control.

Consumers are finding that they can save more money on monthly interest payments by paying down their mortgages than by leaving their cash in banks, which are offering meager interest rates.

Where else can someone with as little as $50 invest in a virtually risk-free, inflation-protected, giftable, fee-free savings product with returns that often exceed the meager interest on savings accounts?

And Karim Rasheed said that he and his wife hoped Global would take their $70,000 retirement nest egg and reap double-digit returns, far more than the meager interest they were earning at a bank.

While grownup foods like crab cakes and spanakopita netted meager interest from my classmates, now pushing 50, they eagerly gobbled up the tots, often before reaching the buffet line's end.

The apparently meager corporate interest may change.

The friends were seeking to earn more than the meager, regulated interest paid on bank deposits, currently 3.5 percent for a one-year certificate of deposit — a rate so low that, with 6 percent inflation, bank deposits actually lose buying power.

If you left the money untouched for a year, it would earn a meager $1.20 in interest.

Richard Handler, the chief executive of Jefferies, laid the blame for the meager showing on rising interest rates.

So her real saving was a meager $7 and her new interest rate was 10.7%, not the 7.15% her EZ Pay worksheet cited.