Each of those teams has a disgraceful win-loss percentage of under 42 percent since they were purchased.
The fall was so abysmal that it remains the index's biggest one-day percentage loss ever.
The question for the Stern Review analysis then effectively becomes: is it worthwhile to sacrifice costs a given percentage of GDP now to avoid a given percentage loss of GDP (i.e. damages) a century from now?
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As investment income falls this becomes less and less possible and so loss ratios rise as a percentage of purely premium income.
Commensurate with the higher risks for natural disasters in the U.S., rate rises below 10% should at least be on the cards, with double-digit-percentage increases in some loss-affected areas, said a person familiar with the matter.
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The first data set, for the year 1999, came from 76 stores in a midsize retail chain and was used to weigh cash shortage and inventory shrinkage, the two most important sources of financial loss in retail, as a percentage of overall sales.
The tables below show the SPX returns following a big loss at the beginning of the month, depending on whether the percentage of II bulls was above or below 40%.
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If you buy a ten-year Treasury today, a three-percentage-point rise in interest rates will inflict a 22% loss.
This week, the Nihon Keisai, Japan's main business daily, reported that the mandarins want to eliminate many tax exemptions, such as those for loss-making companies and reserves set aside for bonuses, to offset the proposed 2.5 percentage point reduction in the nominal tax rate.
And Nationwide's balance sheet, on paper at least, is stronger than that of any of the big banks, with loss-absorbing core capital equivalent to 12.5% of risk-weighted assets, 2.5 percentage points higher than the banks' capital ratios.
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