The bigger reserves could be in the form of cash or common stock, also known as common equity.

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In the Basel I there were Tier I capital requirements and they defined Tier I capital as capital in a certain form -it's stockholders equity plus preferred stock.

第一次巴塞尔协议提出了一级资本要求,他们将一级资本定义为,一种特定形式的资本金,就是股东权益加上优先股

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Incidentally, did I ever--equity equals shares or stock, so when I talk about debt-equity ratio, I'm talking about the ratio of the value of the company's debt to the value of all of its stock.

顺便说下,普通股就是股票,负债权益比就是,就是公司负债价值,除以股票总价值

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