1.   Because of that prospect of a low return on investment, analysts are concerned Barclays may pay too much for Wells Fargo Nikko.

2.   A majority of shareholders at big companies are usually banks and business partners who have traditionally been willing to tolerate low returns.

3.   All this has produced a wide gap between high fixed investment and costs and low returns at the company, only growing wider in the current economic climate.

4.   But individual purchases of bonds are beginning to pick up, as more sophisticated investors balk at the low returns on muni mutual funds and their management fees.

5.   But losses, or low returns, are the usual name of the game.

6.   But their debts, and the low return on those assets force most to rely on outside jobs to make a living.

7.   But, he said, it will take more than one good season to make up for the punishingly low returns of recent years.

8.   Ceridian said higher-than-expects costs for CII, now in tests, would result in an unacceptably low return on investment.

9.   Compared to the low apparent returns from some environmental regulations, however, some controversial medical interventions look reasonable.

10.   Despite the low returns and higher risk, many investors are comfortable placing some of their money with loan funds.