The return on an average bank robbery is, frankly, rubbish.
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To do this his engineers analyze the content of millions of online chats, e-mails and recorded calls--in the average bank, more than 10 million conversations a year--looking for patterns determining when customers become dissatisfied.
Mellon trades at 22 times 12-month trailing earnings, easily outpacing the average regional-bank multiple of 11, but not near the two trusts' 32.
It will buy Japanese government bonds with maturities of up to 40 years, seeking to push the average duration of Bank of Japan (BoJ) bond holdings to seven years, from the current three years.
These customers, who typically have less than 50, 000 in annual household income, cost the bank on average a couple hundred dollars a year.
But on average, reports the Bank, in the 1990s the heavily indebted poor countries received about twice as much in aid as they paid in debt service.
Shares of JPMorgan were among the leaders on the Dow Jones industrial average, alongside rival Bank of America, up 4.3%, amid a broader market rally Thursday after the European Central Bank announced a plan to purchase eurozone sovereign bonds.
Two-thirds say Wall Street will benefit more than the average taxpayer from the new bank bailout plan.
The giant American bank delivered an average annual return of 37.3%, nearly four times its cost of equity.
According to Moody's, the average increase in the World Bank's commodity food price index for emerging countries was 3% year-over-year in the past 12 months, when India's index of wholesale food prices rose 10%.
As a recent paper from the Centre for Policy Studies pointed out, between August 2007 and May 2010 the Bank's average forecast for inflation a year ahead was 1.9%, but the average outturn was 3.2%.
Wayne Madsen's Clydesdale Bank 40 batting average of 50.50 saw him named as Limited Overs player of the year while Wes Durston was an obvious winner of the Twenty20 award having scored 445 competition runs at 37.08.
Deutsche Bank expects bank payouts (both dividends and buybacks) to rise from 27% to 43% on an average, taking the total yield on bank stocks from 2% to 4.3%.
Estimates show reserve accumulation in August totaled 53% of the monthly average from January to July, as Asian central bank intervention fell to a meager 36% of its monthly average.
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Currently, the average swipe fee collected by the bank per debit card transaction is 44 cents.
Over the past decade GDP has grown by 10.6% a year, according to the World Bank, double the average in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average shed 1% after the Bank of Japan said it would extend its asset-purchase program, disappointing some investors who were hoping for new stimulus measures.
Investor confidence in the sector and returns on equity averaging 25% have helped lift Lebanese bank share prices an average of 120% since they were listed earlier this year.
But much of these loans are in the form of mortgages or home loans, and the bank says that the average ratio of the value of the loans to the value of underlying properties is low.
More good news for bank consumers: since the January 2011 Bank Fee Survey, average minimum balance requirements to avoid fees are lower, and average monthly checking account maintenance fees (for those who pay them) are also slightly lower.
Between 1980 and 2000 you got 4% real returns on average each year from cash in the bank.
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Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
In fact, Ex-Im Bank has actually returned an average of nearly a billion dollars each year since fiscal 2008 to the Treasury, representing income in excess of operating expenses, so it really is self-sustaining.
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ECB's policy is that, in current circumstances, it may not be sensible to focus, as the central bank does, on the average inflation rate in the euro area, if this risks creating deflation in Germany.
That means that external demand needs to be going up, and, as long as the European Central Bank is trying to keep average eurozone inflation slightly below 2%, that probably means that inflation in Germany needs to be significantly above 2%.
As a result, according to a new study by Thomas Hertel, of Purdue University, and Will Martin, of the World Bank, rich countries' average tariffs on manufacturing imports from poor countries are four times higher than those on imports from other rich countries.
Traders had shorted more than 103 million shares of Bank of America as of mid-December, indicating a frenzy of arbitrage activity prior to the closing of the bank's acquisition of MBNA. Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
On average they accounted for some 40% of bank lending, up from 20% a decade earlier.
No wonder American bank shares are still, on average, trading some 70% below their peak.
Five seaside towns in Scotland have recorded a doubling in average house prices since 2004, according to Bank of Scotland research.
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