Taylor assumes that we can boost that ratio back to its 2000 level of almost 65%.
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And for the dividend seekers out there, Wells Fargo is itchy to get its payout ratio back above 30%, from its current 24%.
When local governments have to pay back debt, that ratio will increase dramatically.
By early last year, the ratio was back up to nearly 12%, with two-thirds of the victims in rural areas, mainly in the depressed northeast.
The ratio dropped back to test the rising EMA in April and May, but the break through the resistance at line d, confirmed it was leading the market higher.
If you look at a comparison of price-to-earnings in China to those in emerging markets, you have to go back to 2006 to find that ratio as low as it is today.
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To bring the ratio of prices to rents back to equilibrium, either rents must rise sharply or prices must fall.
The CAPE model can be seen to use a long-term average ratio is calculated using market data back to 1880.
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Alternatively, if rents continue to rise at their current annual pace of 2.5%, house prices would need to remain flat for over ten years to bring America's ratio of house prices to rents back to its long-term norm.
And physical objects need physical benefits: Paul Trowe, whose Leisure Suit Larry revival was successfully Kickstarted, is only one of many kickstartees who have told me how they tried to make as many gifts virtual as possible, to limit the ratio of funds that went straight back into the process of rewarding users.
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The cash flow available for stocks is as least a trillion bucks as individuals and corporate pension funds reverse course and move back to an historical norm on debt-equity ratio composition.
But the ratio of inventories to orders is now back at its long-run average and the index has eased to 55 in June from a peak of 57.8 two months before.
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Japan, for example, can have a debt to GDP ratio of 300% and still pay it back because interest rates are barely above 0%.
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Which is why it is so insane that the support price for milk will be defined by the ratio of farm to non-farm prices back a century.
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Under the new Basel III standards, banks will have to increase their tier-1 capital ratio, which measures the capital they hold back from lending or investing, to 4.5% by 2013, from the current standard of 4%.
Which brings us back to where we started, the bloomin' gross leverage ratio.
In May it raised that to ratio to 0.35 and promised to buy back up to 12% of its stock.
Bulls would like to see evidence that these deep-pocketed participants are stepping back into the market, and a turn higher in this ratio would be one clue.
Consider, the ratio of employment expenses to revenues has never been lower going back decades.
Michael Trippitt of Oriel Securities said HSBC had been looked at unfairly by the market for having a relatively low core capital ratio, a key measure of a bank's reserves to back up its lending and investment portfolio.
This ratio is currently declining, suggesting that deep-pocketed players are not back in accumulation mode yet.
The unemployment rate has dropped more than 40% of the way back to its pre-recession level, but the employment-to-population ratio is closer to its trough than its pre-recession peak.
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