Ratio officials, meanwhile, say Mr. Shukrun hired people with links to a Georgian crime syndicate to threaten Ratio's Mr. Landau and his family into making up Mr. Shukrun's losses.
Mr. Landau, Ratio's CEO, says that after Mr. Shukrun threatened him, he turned to a private security company, run by the brother of a convicted (and now deceased) Israeli crime boss.
After eliminating these sales from the insider sell-to-buy ratio, Mr. Seyhun found that current insider behavior is right in line with its average level of the past 10 years, with implications for the overall market that are no worse than neutral.
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The ratio had concerned Mr. Sadis, who says he realized his product wasn't mature enough to hit the market.
"If you liken it to a household account, that's not a bad mortgage to house value ratio, " Mr Kershaw added.
Mr Miles said that the optimal ratio of core tier one equity capital to risk-weighted assets would be 19%.
Mr Holliday wants to see that ratio climb across the firm, and he wants any waste that remains to be recycled.
Mr. Tjornehoj said the low expense ratio was another advantage for Vanguard's fund.
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So instead Mr Saffold proposed aiming at a funding ratio of 80% within 50 years, with employees' contributions being raised by 1% a year for three years from 2015.
Mr Dayton originally proposed a 2:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.
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"If an ant heap is a meter high over ground, which is to say, about 3 feet, it's probably digging up material from three to four meters below, so you can collect samples from those ant heaps, " said Mr. Petzer, who says that is a constant ratio.
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The chief justice was ready with statistics intended to rebut such images, telling Mr. Verrilli that Massachusetts clocked the nation's lowest ratio of black turnout to that of whites, while Mississippi had the highest.
Because the appraisal didn't lower his loan-to-value ratio, and despite his high credit score, Mr. Lattas says he's going to end up with a mortgage rate that's a quarter of a point more expensive than the lowest rates available.
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.
Though London's current price-earnings ratio of 15 sounds quite reasonable, Norwich Union's Mr Lis points out that most past bear markets have ended with ratios in single figures.
So Mr Shimpi tells his clients to overcome their preoccupation with the debt-equity ratio and to concentrate instead on the underlying issues: how much capital does the company need, and how much should be on and off the balance sheet to minimise its total cost?
That has to be encouraging news to stock market bulls, since Mr. Seyhun has found the market has tended to perform well when his adjusted ratio of insider sales to purchases is low.
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Mr. FLOYD LANDIS (Winner of 2006 Tour de France): They say that the ratio is out of line, but there's no indication that there's anything unnatural in my body at this time.
Maybe Mr. Weiss is aware that American Greetings trades well below its average price-to-sales ratio for the past three years of 0.48.
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Its 0.22% ratio is among the lowest in the industry and compared to 0.46% from Mr. Gross's fund and 0.64% on Mr. Fuss's fund.
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