It found that a key capital ratio of Ally's would be just 1.5 percent if it proceeded with its capital plans as requested, then suffered a severe recession.
The profit also contributed to an increase in the bank's Tier 1 capital ratio, a key requirement under the Basel 3 international banking agreements.
But the key here is that the ratio of outbound to inbound searches went up from 2011 to 2012, which is an early leading indicator that outbound migration might be accelerating, too.
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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.
While legendary investors like Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch and John Neff all used the ratio differently, they and many others agreed that the ratio itself was a key to finding bargain-priced stocks.
The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.
It will be of interest to readers that Wave C was exactly equal to Wave A. Once again, this fits in with the Elliott Wave theory that says alternate waves in a correction tend to be related by a Fibonacci ratio, and 100% is a key number.
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Still, he concedes there are signs that the semiconductor industry's key inventory measure, the book-to-bill ratio, has bottomed out.
The key to thermal efficiency for internal combustion engines is compression ratio.
The key figure participants should focus on is the investment expense ratio charged by mutual funds for assets you hold in the plan.
For the ratings agencies, the OBR's re-assessment of growth is important, but also key is Mr Osborne's abandonment of his promise to have the debt ratio falling by 2015-16.
For decades, the price-to-earnings ratio has been the most widely used valuation measure for stock investors, and a key tool in the arsenals of many of the gurus I follow.
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