印度全民加入炒股热潮，该国股市NSE指数今年以来已经涨了14%左右。请看本报昨日的报道：

With red-and-white headphones draped around her neck, 22-year-old Indian IT security consultant Abdhija Sharma looks like she would be more at home discussing the latest music or Bollywood movies than compound returns on equity investments.

But at an office in a Mumbai suburb one recent Saturday, surrounded by banners urging them to “create wealth,” she and 60 others listened intently as finance professional Alpa Shah explained terms like “the power of compounding.”

报道中的compound return就是“复合回报

率”，也叫“复合增长率”，指一项投资在特定时期内的增长率，通常按年计算，称为compound annual growth rate (CAGR)，如果投入本金1,000美元，年复合回报率是10%，那么五年后就可以达到1,000乘以1.1的五次方，即1,611美元。