It has protected free school meals and cut the ratio between its highest and lowest paid staff.
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For Selected American, that cut the expense ratio from 0.93% to 0.68%.
And he's paid well enough he might be reluctant to bite the hand that feeds him, by, for example, voting to cut an expense ratio.
In addition, the People's Bank of China cut its reserve requirement ratio for large banks for the first time since December 2008, following a modest easing for small rural banks last month.
And he has a concern that building societies and mortgage banks would cut back on important lending to the housing market, in that they would be most immediately and directly affected by a cut in the leverage ratio.
Although the pupil-to-teacher ratio has been cut nearly 40% over the past 40 years, millions of our children have not benefited.
Mr. Chidambaram's comments add support to the view among some investors and analysts that the central bank will also cut banks' cash reserve ratio to help banks tide over the liquidity crunch.
Since the middle of 2007, Morgan Stanley has raised about twenty billion dollars in new capital and cut in half its leverage ratio the total value of its assets divided by its capital.
But applying its own analysis of the so-called "fiscal multipliers" in different countries (the impact on growth of a given change in public spending or taxes) suggests that the socialist's approach would boost French GDP by about 0.2%, relative to President Sarkozy's plan, and cut France's public debt ratio slightly faster.
So for example, a country with 100% debt-to-GDP ratio would be expected to cut it by 2% a year.
In less than ten years, you cut your debt-to-GDP ratio in half.
The end goal is not to simply reduce the deficit and cut the debt-to-GDP ratio because those are worthy goals in and of themselves.
Suggesting that we make cut the growth rate of spending to keep the ratio of government-to-GDP near historical levels, as Paul Ryan has suggested?
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The Fed, ECB, BoJ, BoE, SNB and the Bank of Canada lowered interest rates 50 basis points on dollar swaps, and China lowered its required reserve ratio by 50 bps, the first cut since 2008.
Oil-Dri Corp. ( ODC) showed up in the results of my value screening strategy. (The strategy is highlighted in the July AAII Journal First Cut column.) ODC trades at a price-earnings ratio of 17.0 and a price-to-book ratio of 1.7.
But the ratio says that if there is something that needs to be cut down to size, it's government.
All of these companies pay a dividend north of 3% and with payout ratios between 50% and 58% offer protection from a dividend cut on the downside, coupled with some room to increase the payout ratio for some upside.
But Mr. Osborne may wonder why Mr. King is saying this now, as RBS nears the end of a five-year restructuring that has seen it cut its balance sheet almost in half and reduce its loan to deposit ratio to a healthy 100%.
The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
Aiming to cut the levels of yuan in circulation, the People's Bank of China is increasing the banking reserve ratio by half a percentage point to 13.5%.
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