On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.

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Hctor Medina, Cemex executive vice president of planning and finance, says Cemex's ratio of debt to cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) currently stands at 3.55 and should soon fall to 3.0.

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Sharpe, the Stanford finance professor who devised the widely used Sharpe Ratio for measuring investment risk, recently took another looked at actively managed funds.

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Why not, asks Miles Livingston, a finance professor at the University of Florida, define the expense ratio to include them?

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Shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev trade at 14.6 times 2012 earnings, sport a 1.5% dividend yield, and have a price to earnings growth ratio of 1.18, according to Yahoo Finance.

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Easy to finance at 5 percent without leveraging EBITDA more than a 4 to 1 ratio.

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Using big loans to finance expansion, it has a sky-high debt-to-equity ratio of more than 300%.

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The country achieved a single digit inflation rate of 8.6% and the lowest fiscal deficit to GDP ratio of 4.8% in decades, according to figures from the Minister of Finance.

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