Sentence examples for miserable returns from inspiring English sources

Japanese investors have bought high-yielding assets abroad to beat the miserable returns at home.

Fed up with the miserable returns on their deposits, savers are demanding alternatives.

The tax changes make the underlying "yield" on buy-to-let worse than leaving the money in the bank, even with the current miserable returns on deposit accounts.

NEARLY all stock mutual funds had miserable returns in the fourth quarter of 2008 — even those that received excellent grades from the leading fund ranking systems.

Miserable returns on bank deposits encourage punters to plough money into real estate and other riskier investments, so paying decent deposit rates might help prick the property bubble, too.Second, China needs to go beyond banking.

But the index also found that some collectables have made miserable returns, with 19th-century art falling by 7% and rugs and carpets up just 7% over the nine years.

Of course, merely breaking even after five years would count as a miserable return by normal investment yardsticks.

James Maddison's stoppage-time winner ensured Rangers suffered a miserable return to Pittodrie as Aberdeen claimed a dramatic 2-1 Scottish Premiership win.

A solitary shot on target felt a miserable return for a team who, earlier this term, had been the great entertainers.

Phillip Cooper, an organizer of the conference who proudly wore his BedBug Central company logo shirt, said this was the biggest, broadest meeting of its kind since bedbugs began making their miserable return.

In the 2012 cycle, the NRA saw a miserable return on its investment in electoral spending – the percent of its money that wound up on the winning side of an election was less than 1%.