The move aided the appeal of municipal issues by bringing down the ratio to 97.4% making it the most attractive for munis since January.
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The conventional stripped-down expense ratio, excluding brokerage, has its defenders.
They need to get that ratio down to 3-1 by next year.
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If no momentum take the price-earnings ratio down from 15 to 12.5.
The Greek economy contracted by 7.5% year-over-year in the fourth quarter, according to research by Markit, and is looking to bring its debt-to-GDP ratio down to 120% by 2020 (from about 160% currently).
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As the ratio goes down, a car is transformed from a locomotive to a rocket.
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Manufacturers ended 2011 with a 1.33 inventory-to-sales ratio, down from 1.34 in November.
The other way of looking at it is to turn the ratio upside down, and to consider earnings divided by price.
So how is it that the PEG ratio breaks down?
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Since then, consumers have been paying down debt and reducing this ratio.
That also brought down the debt-equity ratio to 1:1.2.
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Since then, consumers have paid down enough debt to reduce this ratio by about 12 percent.
The recovery in profits has driven down the historic price-earnings ratio on most markets.
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Microsoft, selling under 10 times earnings with a rising dividend payout ratio had no takers, down 7 percent.
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Since then, consumers have paid down their outstanding debt to lower this ratio by about 12 or so percent.
Flex activity, therefore, favored issuers over investors by a 2:1 ratio in July, pushing down new-issue clearing yields across the board.
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So far, however, it is not winning enough to get the ratio of costs to income down to its target of 70%.
High GDP growth and inflation eventually brought down the debt-to-GDP ratio.
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That problem is ongoing, because Asian leverage has not declined, it's merely been transferred to the state, enabling the corporate sector to get its ratio of debt to equity down.
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The listed company has been cleaning up its balance sheet, bringing down the consolidated debt-to-equity ratio from 1.72 at the peak in 2009 to 0.57 this year.
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In addition, the current ratio is up, shares outstanding are down and the gross margin has increased.
More youngsters than ever before have internet access and the ratio of pupils to computers is coming down in both primary and secondary schools.
Year-to-date, this ETF has been down about 6.2%, has an expensive ratio of 0.5% and has 86 total holdings.
This ETF has an expense ratio of 0.6% and is down 12.32% year-to-date.
Lehman realized a benefit by using the cash received to pay down other liabilities for a temporary improvement in the leverage ratio.
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On average, the ratio was virtually unchanged in those 10 countries, down 0.1%.
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But it could also slow down the ageing of the population and, by changing the ratio of young workers to old people, give time for the creation of a decent social-security system.
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