rate of return

The latest request came last month when Edison asked the commission to allow it to pay a higher rate of return to shareholders to boost Wall Street’s confidence in its finances after the L.A. fires.

The Bruins will need a high rate of return on the 12 transfers they brought in to bolster their defense.

Not surprisingly, the rate of return to peak performance drops from the first Tommy John to the second.

That’s because they get to recover that cost — plus an annual rate of return — through rates billed to all customers.

This was a form of discounting, the now-common technique for evaluating the present and future value of money by assuming a certain rate of return on that money.